🐶 AI Dog Translator

We continue to monitor AI translators from animal to human language. Researchers from the University of Michigan have found a way to determine the context, breed, gender, and age of a dog by its bark.

🧪 How did they do this?

In collaboration with Mexico’s National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics, and Electronics, scientists discovered that AI models initially trained on human speech may also be applied to animals. Following this discovery, the researchers collected recordings of barks from 74 dogs of various breeds, ages, and genders, including aggressive, playful, and anxious barks.

They chose the Wav2Vec2 model initially trained on human speech data for the analysis. This is the first time such methods have been used to decode animal communication. Wav2Vec2 successfully handled the task and outperformed other models trained, especially on dog bark data, by 70%.

😉 What happens next?

Scientists believe studying patterns in human speech using AI can also help understand other animals.

Source: University of Michigan

Would you like to find out what your pet is saying?

❤️ — Absolutely!
🙉 — I already know it's asking for food

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