Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Bytes that give away a dog's bark

In today's The Daily Telegraph was an article loosely relevent to my previous 'Barking Mad' posting:

Scientists have developed a computer program that "translates" dog barks.

The program analysed more than 6,000 barks from 14 Hungarian sheepdogs in six different situations: 'stranger, fight, walk, alone, ball and play'.

Researchers, who describe their findings in the journal Animal Cognition, hope the advance will lead to a computer that could be operated by a dog's bark.

The team from Eotvos Lorand University in Hungry, plans to compare the barks of different breeds to find out what they have in common.