Your Dog Wants Steak!

The University of Budapest has finished an exhaustive new study that has concluded that it is in fact possible for a computer to analyze and talk back to dogs based on six main kinds of barks. (link)

1. Stranger
2. Fight
3. Walk
4. Alone
5. Ball
6. Play

Recording and telling the difference has been done with software.

The software used in the experiment was developed by the Sony Computer Science Laboratory and it looked at 14 Hungarian sheepdogs. Researchers analyzed more than 6,000 barks and were able to classify each one into one of six categories.

I can only imagine the amount of time and money spent on this adventure to figure out that what every dog owner already knows. I guess they needed to confirm it then?

Meanwhile, cats continue to allude mankind and modern science.