Hungarian Scientists Develop Bark Translation Machine

Komondors

According to a British newspaper Hugarian scientists have successfully made a computer program that can tell what a dog is trying to say. In tests the computer was able to guess from audio alone which situation the dog was in, using the words "stranger", "fight", "walk", "alone", "ball" and "play" to describe the dogs' emotions.

The program headed by Csaba Molnár at Eötvös Loránd University in Hungary
analysed over 6,000 barks from 14 Hungarian Sheepdogs (Komondors). The computer was able to correctly guess the situation in 43% of the 6000 recordings - a far better percentage than humans.

Even though there was only one breed of dog involved - the computer was also able to distinguish between and identify individually the dogs in 52% of the 6000 samples.

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