Microphone Sensitivity/Support

[Ricat87]

Hi! Thanks so much for doing this, I found it on F-Droid and it introduced me to the entire birdNET family. I understand you must have reasons for only releasing the app through F-Droid, even if it's inconvenient for me to export the APK to share the app with my friends who would never download F-Droid themselves.

I've been using whoBIRD on my Pixel 8 and I find that it often has a hard time picking up birds unless they're fairly loud even to my ears. My friend used it at a beach and I was thinking that it was probably windy there, but I've used it in a few places where it wasn't windy and struggled as well.

Is there any kind of microphone level that can be adjusted in Android in general that could be incorporated into the app? Now that I'm typing this, I'm thinking I should comb through my settings and see if there are any noise cancelling or other features globally that could be getting in the way. I don't think I've turned anything on, though.

If there's not really anything on that front, would it be possible to support USB microphones with much better sensitivity?

Thanks!!!