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Wooftalk

Dogs talk.. but do we listen?

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What? The Problem:

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Why?

  • Understanding increases empathy, and reduces suffering.

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  • Potential advantages for humans

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  • Technology improves daily

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  • Because it's cool

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Long term Animal Welfare

A society is judged on how it treats, the weakest, voiceless masses.

We underestimate animal intelligences, because we can't understand them

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If humanity is to grow evolve and live across the stars, do we want pets or companions?

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How?

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How?

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Demo

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Data Flywheel

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To the moon!!

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How?

Phase 2

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How?

Phase 3

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Questions?

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Current SotA?

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Privacy Concerns

The device is limited to picking dog sound only. The device does not collect, process, store, analyze, or transmit human voice data or personally identifiable audio information due to it autofiter and signal classification.

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Vector database for dog barks

  1. We downloaded ArlingtonCL2/DogSpeak_Dataset from hugging face. 77202 bark sequences from 156 docs across 5 breeds
  2. Hosted CLAP audio embedding model on HugggingFace GPUS
  3. Generated dataset embeddings
  4. Loaded into Qdrant DB and made them searchable and ready to use.

Novelty: Used CLAP instead of HUBERT model