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CatMeows: A Publicly-Available Dataset of Cat Vocalizations (2020)

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Re: CatMeows: A Publicly-Available Dataset of Cat Vocalizations (2020)

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Post by StavrosK »

tomaszs wrote: post #39
sloshnmosh wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I need an app that can tell me when my cat has had enough pettings to alert me before he flips over and latches on to my arm and kicks layers of my skin off. That app would make a FORTUNE!

I was pretty successful with using the rule of three. You pet a cat three times. No less, no more. Cat won't be irritated by prolonged petting, but also not fully satisfied with only three pets. My cat never scratched me when I used this rule.

Do you guys not trim their nails? No scratching when they aren't sharp.

Re: CatMeows: A Publicly-Available Dataset of Cat Vocalizations (2020)

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Post by StavrosK »

phowat wrote: post #22
WalterBright wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Having a cat, I have worked out a sophisticated translation lookup table: cat[] = meow meow meow meow meow translation[] = feedme feedme feedme feedme feedme So far, it is 100% accurate.

In my case here it means either : feed me , pet me or play with this toy with me . I have to try these options to know what it really means.

I have a cat, but am a dog person. The difference in intelligence is stinking. The cat can't communicate anything past meowing generically, whereas the dog can understand what I'm saying and bark on the one it wants.

When my cat wants something, she'll meow uselessly until we chance on what it is. When my dog wants something, she'll come to me and touch me with her paw, and I'll say "Food. Water. Walk." and she'll bark at the one she wants. It's amazing.

Re: CatMeows: A Publicly-Available Dataset of Cat Vocalizations (2020)

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Post by StavrosK »

derefr wrote: post #31
TwoBit wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not convinced.

The video where the cat begs (through the buttons) to go outside in the rain, takes one step outside, comes back in, and immediately complains (through the buttons) about the rain, is pretty convincing to me. Also interesting is its use of the "angry" button in response to not getting its way, or having something irritating it, or when it's clearly frustrated by not having its needs understood.

Maybe there's more in videos I didn't watch, but I watched 5-6 videos and the cat seems to be pressing buttons randomly. It doesn't seem to correspond to anything it does.

Re: CatMeows: A Publicly-Available Dataset of Cat Vocalizations (2020)

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Post by vector_spaces »

TwoBit wrote: post #30
derefr wrote: post #27

Reminds me of this cat, who has been trained to express themselves via button-presses: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGMTesZlKa0Lokb7ZNqOJXQ

I'm not convinced.

Her person is a vet, and she acknowledges in various places[1] that it's unclear whether Billi pushes the buttons to form meaningful sentences, or simply because she knows something happens when she presses them (like she'll get some sort of attention).

I can imagine there are some buttons where she might associate the button press with a specific outcome (like, she knows that when she pushes her "food" button, there's a good chance of her getting fed). But whether Billi understands that her getting fed is because she's intentionally communicating with her person is unclear.

Either way, I think the channel is mostly for fun, and my partner and I have appreciated it a lot during the pandemic. Billi had a scary health crisis a couple of weeks ago but looks to be mostly recovered now, thankfully

[1] One of those places is this FAQ page https://www.billispeaks.com/faq

Re: CatMeows: A Publicly-Available Dataset of Cat Vocalizations (2020)

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Post by barrkel »

StavrosK wrote: post #41
tomaszs wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was pretty successful with using the rule of three. You pet a cat three times. No less, no more. Cat won't be irritated by prolonged petting, but also not fully satisfied with only three pets. My cat never scratched me when I used this rule.

Do you guys not trim their nails? No scratching when they aren't sharp.

If they ever end up outside, they're defenceless.

Re: CatMeows: A Publicly-Available Dataset of Cat Vocalizations (2020)

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Post by bofh23 »

sixdimensional wrote: post #14

Somebody needs to tell the guy who made this YouTube video about this: Alugalug cat x the Kiffness https://youtu.be/S61ENc51Z1Q

Here’s the original that’s being remixed:

I Don't Wanna Be Touched - Meredith Bull FULL SONG OUT NOW https://youtu.be/H3Y-A4Ahkto

Channel: Meredith Bull

Published on May 2, 2021

Re: CatMeows: A Publicly-Available Dataset of Cat Vocalizations (2020)

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Post by StavrosK »

barrkel wrote: post #45
StavrosK wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you guys not trim their nails? No scratching when they aren't sharp.

If they ever end up outside, they're defenceless.

Ah yeah, true, we don't let out cat outside, or if we're going to, we don't trim her nails for a few weeks beforehand.

Re: CatMeows: A Publicly-Available Dataset of Cat Vocalizations (2020)

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Post by barrkel »

StavrosK wrote: post #42
phowat wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In my case here it means either : feed me , pet me or play with this toy with me . I have to try these options to know what it really means.

I have a cat, but am a dog person. The difference in intelligence is stinking. The cat can't communicate anything past meowing generically, whereas the dog can understand what I'm saying and bark on the one it wants. When my cat wants something, she'll meow uselessly until we chance on what it is. When my dog wants something, she'll come to me and touch me with her paw, and I'll say "Food. Water. Walk." and she'll ba…

I don't doubt that dogs are smarter than cats, but dogs are far more social and are motivated to learn by that social connection. Cats can also be trained, but it's a lot more work to keep them motivated.

Cats do communicate a lot, but it's physical and sometimes subtle; eye contact, body rubbing, head butting, contextual waiting, and so on. Our cats very rarely meow unless they haven't been noticed, or, with the Norwegian, when she wants attention and she has a toy in her mouth she wants to play with - she loves playing fetch with toy mice.

Re: CatMeows: A Publicly-Available Dataset of Cat Vocalizations (2020)

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Post by Tabular-Iceberg »

gregsadetsky wrote: post #11
bingu wrote: post #8

Great and fun idea, but the resolution of these files is incredibly low.

You're not kidding, they're 8 kHz i.e. ""phone resolution""... Interesting, this seems to be related to the Bluetooth microphone that they used: "Thus, we adopted a very small and lightweight microphone placed under the cat’s throat through a collar" The microphone is described in their paper [0]: "The signal is transmitted via Bluetooth [...] at a sampling frequency of 8 kHz." Also: "As a consequence, the actual ran…

Sounds like they were over-complicating things. Simply pointing a shotgun mic at the cat from a distance would have done the trick.

I don’t blame them, though, we do it all the time in software development.

Re: CatMeows: A Publicly-Available Dataset of Cat Vocalizations (2020)

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Post by maurits »

WalterBright wrote: post #15
ctoth wrote: post #10

This reminds me of some people working on a cat translator[0] The paper this dataset links to [1] seems to be using statistical techniques to compare spectrograms of meows, something that seems pretty easy with fastaudio[2]. [0]: https://github.com/FrogBoss74/RealCatTranslator [1]: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/9/8/543 [2]: https://github.com/fastaudio/fastaudio

Having a cat, I have worked out a sophisticated translation lookup table: cat[] = meow meow meow meow meow translation[] = feedme feedme feedme feedme feedme So far, it is 100% accurate.

cat translator finally online

cat: I AM THE NIGHT, THE DARKNESS

owner: That can't be right, he is called Mittens.

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