Translation technology may let humans speak with dolphins
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Translation technology may let humans speak with dolphins
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Re: Translation technology may let humans speak with dolphins
#2Somehow, this made me think of the Baby Translator from the Simpsons
Re: Translation technology may let humans speak with dolphins
#3Somehow, this made me think of the Baby Translator from the Simpsons
Really? Not SeaQuest DSV?
Re: Translation technology may let humans speak with dolphins
#4Do dolphins have anything interesting to say?
Re: Translation technology may let humans speak with dolphins
#5"May" in this case meaning "we haven't actually done any testing yet." Can't anyone wait until they have tested their theory before having an article written about it? This title could just as easily have been "Humans are going to record and play different sounds to dolphins with the hope that something happens."
Re: Translation technology may let humans speak with dolphins
#6Somehow, this made me think of the Baby Translator from the Simpsons
"What do you want, Maggie?"
Translator: "I want what the dogs eating!"
Re: Translation technology may let humans speak with dolphins
#7From a machine learning perspective this doesn't seem like such a daunting task. We have pretty good speech recognition for human language (plus acceptable speech synthesis). Assuming dolphins have a smaller vocabulary than humans, speech recognition of dolphins should strictly speaking be a simpler problem (although it would be significantly harder to record the training data).
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#8Do dolphins have anything interesting to say?
Obviously, "So long and thanks for all the fish."
But more importantly communication is the first step towards mutual respect if dolphins are sentient.
Re: Translation technology may let humans speak with dolphins
#9Somehow, this made me think of the Baby Translator from the Simpsons
I prefer the dog translator from the Far Side cartoon.
It turns out every barking dog is saying "Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!"
Re: Translation technology may let humans speak with dolphins
#10From a machine learning perspective this doesn't seem like such a daunting task. We have pretty good speech recognition for human language (plus acceptable speech synthesis). Assuming dolphins have a smaller vocabulary than humans, speech recognition of dolphins should strictly speaking be a simpler problem (although it would be significantly harder to record the training data).
the difference is to map the vocabulary to the meaning... even writig down the vocabulary is a challenge...
iiiiaiiiiaiiiiiiiiiaiiiIjii... in dolphin that means "WTF" or "Of course"?