An AI Generated Podcast about CHAT

The Dolphin Whispers Project’s Julio Raldua Veuthey shared his recent AI generated podcast with WDP about our CHAT research. Listen to Podcast

C.H.A.T. (Cetacean Hearing Augmentation Technology) is an underwater computer capable of playing and receiving sounds. Since it is meant to be a simple system for human/dolphin communication, it also incorporates real-time sound recognition (using Machine Learning algorithms) to help identify vocalizations in the water. The first version of CHAT (CHAT SENIOR) was a large chest-worn aluminum housing which worked well but was a bit bulky and also required a tech team to keep it running.  Since that version we have gone modular, creating an arm-worn module that plays sounds (CHAT LITE), and a chest-worn smart phone that both receives and translates sounds (CHAT JUNIOR) for the researcher in the water.  Finally, we have been able to use off-the-shelf hardware, smartphones, to train for this system.  Much more user-friendly, CHAT LITE and CHAT JUNIOR give us the ability to spend much more time in the water with the dolphins, and require less of a tech team to be onboard all the time. Still dependent on machine learning for the system, at least the hardware has been reduced in size, making it easier for the researcher to swim with our streamline dolphins.