With this cat meow translator app, we should finally understand our cats
Cat meow translator app: It almost sounds too good to be true: With the help of an app for the cell phone, we should soon finally be able to understand our cats. Behind the app’s idea is a former Amazon engineer who dedicates himself to the translation of meows for his new project.
Is she hungry now? Does she want to be petted? Or is she even in pain? Cat owners know: a meow can mean many things. And it is not always easy to understand them.
How much easier would it be if the cat could say what it wants in no uncertain terms? Not only do many cat owners have this dream, but also technology experts.
Because it’s not as absurd as it sounds at first: it’s made possible by AI, artificial intelligence. So a programmed algorithm that can learn from it.
Almost a year ago, it was said that the first animal communication apps could come onto the market this year. Now, this forecast seems to be within reach – thanks to Javier Sanchez and the “MeowTalk” app.
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This app could help us understand cats.
That sounds promising because Javier Sanchez already worked on the development of Amazon’s language assistant Alexa. Now he is a project manager at Akvelon. There he developed the “MeowTalk” app – with the help of which we could finally understand the sounds of cats.
Sanchez makes it clear: “It’s not a language.” In the wild, cats would never Iowa on each other. But: Cats have learned to get the attention of us humans through meowing.
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The engineer and his team also discovered that cats often meow for one of nine reasons – and that the associated meow is different. With his experience with Alexa and based on his research, Sanchez is working on deciphering cat sounds.
If cat owners wonder what their kitties actually want to tell them in the future, they can record meowing with the app. This then spits out short sentences like: “I’m hungry” or “I’m in pain.” The app should also be able to learn the very individual sounds of the respective cat. This should enable the algorithm to translate meows that go beyond the nine main statements.
“MeowTalk” is still in development, reports the US magazine ” People. ” You can already install a test version for Apple and Android devices. In the long term, Sanchez hopes to develop a collar that translates a cat’s meowing simultaneously.