Science & Technology

Scientists aim to translate what your dog is saying using AI

By T.K. Randall
October 9, 2025

Image: AI-generated (Midjourney) Remember the dog in Pixar's movie 'Up' that has a human language translator around its neck ? That might seem far-fetched, but now one computer scientist is trying to do something like that for real.

By creating the world's largest video and audio catalog of canine vocalizations, Zhu and colleagues aim to identity word-like patterns in dog sounds that can be translated into sentences.

"The ultimate goal is to make a translator where you can talk freely with your pet," he said. "We can already do instantaneous communication between human languages.""Perhaps in the future we can do the same with animals."

Zhu isn't the first person to try deciphering animal sounds - other researchers have spent years attempting to catalogue and interpret the various sounds made by whales and dolphins.

Perhaps in the near future, AI might genuinely make it possible for us to communicate directly with other animals and even our own pets, while understanding what they are saying back to us.

Whether it could ever work like the dog in 'Up', however, remains to be seen.


Source: Phys.org

Tags: Dog, Artificial Intelligence