# \#vak **URL:** https://forum.vocalpy.org/tag/vak/2.md [Latest](https://forum.vocalpy.org/latest.md) · [Categories](https://forum.vocalpy.org/categories.md) · [Tags](https://forum.vocalpy.org/tags.md) --- ## [BrokenProcessPool during vak prep](https://forum.vocalpy.org/t/brokenprocesspool-during-vak-prep/101)
**Author:** [@Sita](https://forum.vocalpy.org/u/Sita)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [January 21, 2025, 2:07am UTC](https://forum.vocalpy.org/t/brokenprocesspool-during-vak-prep/101 "2025-01-21T02:07:10Z")
Hi all, I installed vak on linux and everything worked fine with the bengalese finch test set from the tutorial. Now I’m trying my own recordings but I think I’m running into memory problems. During vak prep It starts a… --- ## [Issues with vak predict with the latest version of vak](https://forum.vocalpy.org/t/issues-with-vak-predict-with-the-latest-version-of-vak/95)
**Author:** [@koparkanya](https://forum.vocalpy.org/u/koparkanya)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [May 8, 2024, 1:35am UTC](https://forum.vocalpy.org/t/issues-with-vak-predict-with-the-latest-version-of-vak/95 "2024-05-08T01:35:26Z")
Hi! I am having problems during the vak predict predict.toml step. It always gives this error: Traceback (most recent call last): File “/gpfs01/veit/user/akoparkar/miniconda3/envs/vakenv/bin/vak”, line 10, in sys.exit… --- ## [Vak 1.0.0a1 released!](https://forum.vocalpy.org/t/vak-1-0-0a1-released/55)
**Author:** [@nicholdav](https://forum.vocalpy.org/u/nicholdav)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 6, 2023, 2:52am UTC](https://forum.vocalpy.org/t/vak-1-0-0a1-released/55 "2023-03-06T02:52:50Z")
Hi all, just letting you know that we have released the first alpha version of vak version 1.0! We have switched to Lightning as a backend, and we are adding new models and datasets. You can test out the alpha by pip i… --- ## [SciPy 2023 talk + proceedings paper on vak](https://forum.vocalpy.org/t/scipy-2023-talk-proceedings-paper-on-vak/80)
**Author:** [@nicholdav](https://forum.vocalpy.org/u/nicholdav)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 21, 2023, 1:22am UTC](https://forum.vocalpy.org/t/scipy-2023-talk-proceedings-paper-on-vak/80 "2023-09-21T01:22:28Z")
Hey all, just wanted to share a talk I gave at the SciPy 2023 conference on vak, and an accompanying proceedings paper with @yardenc as co-author. We haven’t made much noise about this on social media because version 1.… --- ## [Inconsistent syllable error rate between vak eval and predict](https://forum.vocalpy.org/t/inconsistent-syllable-error-rate-between-vak-eval-and-predict/79)
**Author:** [@zhileizhao](https://forum.vocalpy.org/u/zhileizhao)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [September 20, 2023, 10:11pm UTC](https://forum.vocalpy.org/t/inconsistent-syllable-error-rate-between-vak-eval-and-predict/79 "2023-09-20T22:11:41Z")
Hi vocalpy team, Great work on developing the toolkits! Thank you so much for making them publicly accessible! I’ve been using vak to train TweetyNet model on my own vocalization data for the annotation task. I’m a li… --- ## [Errors in training and predicting when the newest version of vak is installed](https://forum.vocalpy.org/t/errors-in-training-and-predicting-when-the-newest-version-of-vak-is-installed/71)
**Author:** [@Jacqueline](https://forum.vocalpy.org/u/Jacqueline)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [September 11, 2023, 4:04pm UTC](https://forum.vocalpy.org/t/errors-in-training-and-predicting-when-the-newest-version-of-vak-is-installed/71 "2023-09-11T16:04:19Z")
Hi, I found a bug: if you install vak with the newest version of python and lightning package than there will be an error with the accelerator = ‘None’. I installed the vak environment as such: Anaconda Powershell co… --- ## [White-crowned Sparrow Songs Preprint!](https://forum.vocalpy.org/t/white-crowned-sparrow-songs-preprint/68)
**Author:** [@kaiyaprovost](https://forum.vocalpy.org/u/kaiyaprovost)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [July 19, 2023, 1:09pm UTC](https://forum.vocalpy.org/t/white-crowned-sparrow-songs-preprint/68 "2023-07-19T13:09:27Z")
Hello all, Hope everyone is well! Wanted to take a moment and shout out our new pre-print. Our former undergraduate student Jiaying Yang absolutely knocked this out of the park, learning not just how to do all of the s… --- ## [Specifying the frequency range using vak](https://forum.vocalpy.org/t/specifying-the-frequency-range-using-vak/67)
**Author:** [@denajane13](https://forum.vocalpy.org/u/denajane13)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [July 18, 2023, 5:03pm UTC](https://forum.vocalpy.org/t/specifying-the-frequency-range-using-vak/67 "2023-07-18T17:03:05Z")
Hello, I have worked through the vak tutorials and got everything up and running - kudos to the developers! I could not find any information or tutorials on how to change the frequency range or limits of the spectrogram… --- ## [\_spectral\_helper error during prep](https://forum.vocalpy.org/t/spectral-helper-error-during-prep/65)
**Author:** [@Sita](https://forum.vocalpy.org/u/Sita)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [July 8, 2023, 4:58pm UTC](https://forum.vocalpy.org/t/spectral-helper-error-during-prep/65 "2023-07-08T16:58:02Z")
Hi all, I hope I didn’t miss anything obvious in the tutorial (sorry if I do, bit under time pressure due to students’ deadlines). I get an error during prep in the spectrogram step. The progress bar starts running for… --- ## [Vak 0.8.0 + TweetyNet 0.9.0 released; vak 1.0 in development](https://forum.vocalpy.org/t/vak-0-8-0-tweetynet-0-9-0-released-vak-1-0-in-development/53)
**Author:** [@nicholdav](https://forum.vocalpy.org/u/nicholdav)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 16, 2023, 4:58pm UTC](https://forum.vocalpy.org/t/vak-0-8-0-tweetynet-0-9-0-released-vak-1-0-in-development/53 "2023-02-16T16:58:10Z")
Hi all! Just a heads up we released vak version 0.8.0 last week. The main feature this adds is the ability to run eval + learncurve with and without post-processing transforms that clean up the model output before con… --- ## [What happens when 'train\_dur' \< (total duration of files prepared for training)?](https://forum.vocalpy.org/t/what-happens-when-train-dur-total-duration-of-files-prepared-for-training/50)
**Author:** [@mizuki](https://forum.vocalpy.org/u/mizuki)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [December 14, 2022, 10:13pm UTC](https://forum.vocalpy.org/t/what-happens-when-train-dur-total-duration-of-files-prepared-for-training/50 "2022-12-14T22:13:51Z")
Hi,it’s been a while since we last talked. I recently noticed that I might have had misusage of some parameters, train\_dur, val\_dur and test\_dur. I was setting much shorter values than total duration of prepared data to… --- ## [Vak prep crashes because of package version requirement](https://forum.vocalpy.org/t/vak-prep-crashes-because-of-package-version-requirement/49)
**Author:** [@yardenc](https://forum.vocalpy.org/u/yardenc)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [December 5, 2022, 2:34am UTC](https://forum.vocalpy.org/t/vak-prep-crashes-because-of-package-version-requirement/49 "2022-12-05T02:34:17Z")
I created a new environment in a machine that served many successful runs with vak and tweetynet. This time I got an error when running vak prep on the tutorial data. I tried creating the environment in two ways: con… --- ## [Setting up dev environment for vak](https://forum.vocalpy.org/t/setting-up-dev-environment-for-vak/48)
**Author:** [@Itamar.F](https://forum.vocalpy.org/u/Itamar.F)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [November 19, 2022, 8:31pm UTC](https://forum.vocalpy.org/t/setting-up-dev-environment-for-vak/48 "2022-11-19T20:31:30Z")
Hello all :slight\_smile: I’m trying to set a development environment with vak (for some fiddling and learning) and having trouble setting it up using conda. I would appreciate any help! I’ve cloned the repository, inst… --- ## [Vak version 0.5.0 released!](https://forum.vocalpy.org/t/vak-version-0-5-0-released/35)
**Author:** [@nicholdav](https://forum.vocalpy.org/u/nicholdav)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 30, 2022, 2:49am UTC](https://forum.vocalpy.org/t/vak-version-0-5-0-released/35 "2022-06-30T02:49:59Z")
Hi all, Just a heads up that vak version 0.5.0 is released: You should be able to pip install or get it through the conda-forge channel now. Big addition here is the ability to continue training models, contributed b… --- ## [Released: vak 0.6.0 and tweetynet 0.8.0 🐦](https://forum.vocalpy.org/t/released-vak-0-6-0-and-tweetynet-0-8-0/38)
**Author:** [@nicholdav](https://forum.vocalpy.org/u/nicholdav)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 9, 2022, 8:42pm UTC](https://forum.vocalpy.org/t/released-vak-0-6-0-and-tweetynet-0-8-0/38 "2022-07-09T20:42:39Z")
This release mainly consists of on-going maintenance / clean-up work to get ready for bigger changes (bigger changes discussed here: Engine + core/cli re-design · Issue #359 · vocalpy/vak · GitHub – currently me just ta… --- ## [Important announcement: we have vak and vocalpy stickers!](https://forum.vocalpy.org/t/important-announcement-we-have-vak-and-vocalpy-stickers/39)
**Author:** [@nicholdav](https://forum.vocalpy.org/u/nicholdav)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 16, 2022, 12:44pm UTC](https://forum.vocalpy.org/t/important-announcement-we-have-vak-and-vocalpy-stickers/39 "2022-08-16T12:44:46Z")
Got some stickers printed!!! That’s how you know you’re an official open source software community, if you have stickers :stuck\_out\_tongue\_winking\_eye: If anyone will be at GRC Neural Mechs. of Acoustic Communcation I’… --- ## [Giving a talk at "Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics" seminar June 24th @ 16:00 CEST](https://forum.vocalpy.org/t/giving-a-talk-at-bridging-brains-and-bioacoustics-seminar-june-24th-16-00-cest/30)
**Author:** [@nicholdav](https://forum.vocalpy.org/u/nicholdav)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 10, 2022, 3:44pm UTC](https://forum.vocalpy.org/t/giving-a-talk-at-bridging-brains-and-bioacoustics-seminar-june-24th-16-00-cest/30 "2022-06-10T15:44:14Z")
Hi all! This an event announcement, not a software announcement (hopefully will have one of those in the next week :slightly\_smiling\_face: ) I’ll be giving a talk on TweetyNet, vak, and friends at the next Bridging Bra… --- ## [Vak prep issue with "simple-seq" annotation format and wave files](https://forum.vocalpy.org/t/vak-prep-issue-with-simple-seq-annotation-format-and-wave-files/28)
**Author:** [@YMK123](https://forum.vocalpy.org/u/YMK123)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [June 10, 2022, 4:14am UTC](https://forum.vocalpy.org/t/vak-prep-issue-with-simple-seq-annotation-format-and-wave-files/28 "2022-06-10T04:14:07Z")
Hi, Vak prep ran smoothly with the tutorial using cbin and notmat files; however, I encountered an issue using “vak prep” on my own dataset where it does not appear to identify the annotation files associated with the a… --- ## [\`vak\` installation issue with conda](https://forum.vocalpy.org/t/vak-installation-issue-with-conda/27)
**Author:** [@YMK123](https://forum.vocalpy.org/u/YMK123)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [June 8, 2022, 4:45pm UTC](https://forum.vocalpy.org/t/vak-installation-issue-with-conda/27 "2022-06-08T16:45:51Z")
Hi, I was following the tutorial for installing vak using conda for MacOS and on Linux. While the conda installation did not produce any errors, the program produces a segmentation fault error when typing in the command… --- ## [About the Announcements category](https://forum.vocalpy.org/t/about-the-announcements-category/12)
**Author:** [@nicholdav](https://forum.vocalpy.org/u/nicholdav)\ **Replies:** 0
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