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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 ficklepickle »

jnurmine wrote: post #40
sloshnmosh wrote: post #29

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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!

Disclaimer: I'm no Jackson Galaxy. But pets, both cats and dogs, communicate with their owners in their own way. Cats are a lot about body language. For your question I just look at the ears and the tail. When the ears go lower and/or tail starts wagging, I stop. Or when my cat moves a small distance away, sits there and stares/smiles? I stop. I've noticed that what I interpret as a desire for petting is often some o…

I also follow my cat while asking questions! It's almost always food, water, catnip or litter.

Regarding the water: he won't drink chlorinated water. In his previous home, he developed urinary stones because they didn't figure this out. Cue a BS prescription diet sold by "vets". Nope, he just needed fresh, non-chlorinated water.

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

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Post by lejohnq »

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

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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…

What I experienced with my cats is they don’t seem to care about learning you, rather they expect you to learn them and their signals.

They have the intelligence to communicate but it’s typically on their terms.

Also here’s an example of a cat learning to speak with language buttons: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pvgfI9P377U

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

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Post by bigmattystyles »

inopinatus wrote: post #35
WalterBright wrote: post #15

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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.

There is also meow, meaning "leave me alone I am trying to sleep", and meow, meaning "behold human, I have deigned to bless you with a gift of this deceased rodent".

I wish they were dead; I spent an hour looking for one that was brought back in…

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

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Post by derefr »

StavrosK wrote: post #43
derefr wrote: post #31

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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.

Watch the older videos, not the newer ones.

AFIACT, the videos are a kind of progress log for demonstrating the cat's learning in different concepts. The older videos focused on [demonstration of] learning of more "core" concepts ("food", "water", "pets", "outside", etc.); but since these concepts are now fully "taught", the owner seems to feel no more need to film the cat communicating these simpler core messages, except when they form an interesting sequence or larger idea.

Instead, the newer videos focus on learning of more fringe concepts — ideas that "come up" less often — and so progress is slower in these.

(Note that, watching the videos chronologically, the number of buttons the cat has available grows quite a bit over time. I think the owner thinks that the cat now understands the general concept of associating things-to-be-communicated with presses of word-buttons, and so feels that they can now feed them new concepts faster.)

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

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Post by dTal »

jnurmine wrote: post #40
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!

Disclaimer: I'm no Jackson Galaxy. But pets, both cats and dogs, communicate with their owners in their own way. Cats are a lot about body language. For your question I just look at the ears and the tail. When the ears go lower and/or tail starts wagging, I stop. Or when my cat moves a small distance away, sits there and stares/smiles? I stop. I've noticed that what I interpret as a desire for petting is often some o…

>For example, if the balcony door is open and cold air is coming in (my cat doesn't like cold), my cat sometimes takes me to first to the fridge and then leads me to the balcony door

That is an extraordinary level of symbolic communication for a cat!

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

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Post by aliasEli »

In normal wild cats only kittens meow. Domesticated cats will only meow when they are trying to communicate with humans.

Adult domesticated cats will communicate with other cats in many ways:

- with smell, your cat spraying everything is just marking its territory

- hissing or growling, even very small very small cats can be very good at deterring much bigger cats

- when female cats are in heat they make a lot of noise but i don't think that does qualify as meowing

- most cat communication is non-verbal, we probably don't understand much of it

If have listened to several of these sound recordings and they only sample a tiny fraction of cat communications.

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