Researchers are testing out new Artificial Intelligence tools in an attempt to decode what a dog's bark means.
Yes, even though any dog owner most likely knows the difference between a happy, joyful bark and a defensive, warning, angry bark - University of Michigan researchers, nevertheless, are trying to understand more about how a dog communicates.
"By using speech processing models initially trained on human speech, our research opens a new window into how we can leverage what we built so far in speech processing to start understanding the nuances of dog barks," director of Michigan's AI laboratory Rada Mihalcea said.
Using Artificial Intelligence and algorithms, researchers say that they could potentially not only learn more about what a dog is saying, but why they are saying it as well. Ultimately, they believe this could help humans understand and communicate with their dogs better.
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