A superpower many of us would like to employ would be the ability to talk to our pets.
Researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington are working to make that dream a reality.
Computer scientist Kenny Zhu tells the Dallas Morning News he’s compiled the “world’s largest video and audio catalog of canine vocalizations,” with the hopes of turning all of the barks, woofs, and whimpers your dog makes into intelligible speech using AI.
So far, Zhu and his team have transcribed about 50 hours of barks into syllables.
“The ultimate goal is to make a translator where you can talk freely with your pet,” he says. “We can already do instantaneous communication between human languages. Perhaps in the future we can do the same with animals.”
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