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Re: The day my voice broke

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Post by thechao » Tue, Jan 26, 2021, 1:10 PM UTC

me_me_me wrote: post #30

crooked-v wrote: post #24

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Also see the 'smartest dog', who memorized the names of 1,022 individual toys and could make connections like 'ball' meaning any unfamiliar round object. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaser_(dog) https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/11/24/smart-...

i have seen some videos of dogs pushing on voice activated buttons to 'talk'. There was always possibility that dog was thought to press sequence of buttons to indicate something. A pavlovan reaction trained to look like dog is building a crude sentence. But the Chaser studies are quite convincing that dogs are capable of linking speech to abstract general ideas. Its absolutely amazing.

My dog will grab my hand and put it on things he wants me to do “hands things” with: open a can of dog food, open the door, throw a ball, get stuff out of cracks/under things, etc. Although, most of the time he just wants pets.

Re: The day my voice broke

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Post by me_me_me » Tue, Jan 26, 2021, 1:21 PM UTC

thechao wrote: post #31

me_me_me wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

i have seen some videos of dogs pushing on voice activated buttons to 'talk'. There was always possibility that dog was thought to press sequence of buttons to indicate something. A pavlovan reaction trained to look like dog is building a crude sentence. But the Chaser studies are quite convincing that dogs are capable of linking speech to abstract general ideas. Its absolutely amazing.

My dog will grab my hand and put it on things he wants me to do “hands things” with: open a can of dog food, open the door, throw a ball, get stuff out of cracks/under things, etc. Although, most of the time he just wants pets.

My favourite (and it seems universal) is when they do something they know is wrong/forbidden, say destroy something.

You show them the thing asking 'whats this?' 'did you do it?'. They just look to the side pretending that they are not paying attention to you. Like you are not there, until they break and just try to hide :D

Its priceless.

Re: The day my voice broke

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Post by deepsun » Tue, Jan 26, 2021, 6:28 PM UTC

It's also very hard for non-native speakers. We don't know what tone is expected when you're expressing an emotion, and to what level. It's kinda part of an accent, but even with good accent, you have to know culture really well, or have a natural ability to mimic others, to be able to fit in.