Pet Translators Could Let Us Talk to Dogs Soon

Would you like to be able to talk to your dogs? This could be possible soon. According to a report builds on Mr. Slobodchikoff’s work and was written by William Higham, a consumer futurist for Amazon. Higham proposes that soon we may have a completely operational device with the ability to translate what our dogs say. A lot of folks would really love to talk to their dog – or at least find out what they are trying to communicate.

According to Mr. Higham. “Innovation items that succeed are based on a real and major consumer needs. The amount of money recently spent on pets care – they are becoming furry babies to a lot of people – this implies there is massive consumer demand for this. Somebody is going to put this together.”

For the last few years, progresses in the field of machine learning have prompted dramatic improvements in electronic speech translation and recognition. Algorithms learn to translate language by training on vast data sets instead of being pre-programmed with a set of inflexible guidelines.

using artificial intelligence (AI) software to help examine the calls of prairie dogs - a type of North American rodents - scientist discovers that they had "a sophisticated communication system that has all the aspects of a language".

They have words for divergent species of predator and can explain the color of clothes of a human, or the coat of coyotes or dogs," said Con Slobodchikoff, a professor at Northern Arizona University in the US. Slobodchikoff is convinced that other animals use similarly clear language and is attempting to raise money to develop a cat and dog translation device.

However, Juliane Kaminski, a clinician at Portsmouth University who works on associations between dogs and humans, is less hopeful that we will soon have the capacity to clarify dog barks and bow-wows – mostly because she does not think that the way a dog woofs can be seen as a language. “We would not describe dogs’ forms of communication as a language in the scientific sense,” she says. However: “They do give out simple signals of what they need and how they’re feeling.”

For example, she says, a right-sided tail wag is positive while a wag to the left not all that positive. “That is something people might not pick on so easily,” said Kaminski – in spite of the fact that interpretation gadget might have difficulty detecting that, as well. Dogs’ barks, she says, are also context specific. They give out divergent yowls and yaps during play, aggression when they are missing their owner and so on, yet even people who have never owned a dog are fairly good at decoding these utterances.