Y ou might’ve heard we’re trying to talk to whales. It sounds crazy, but it’s not so far-fetched, as in recent years we’ve ...

In a paper just published in Open Mind, a journal, a group of researchers with the Cetacean Translation Initiative ( CETI ), ...

The research relies on a generative adversarial network, an AI system that learned to recognize real whale codas while ...

The latest discovery is that elements of their vocals function in a way that’s fascinatingly similar to human vowels, making ...

THE sound track in the accompanying illustration (Fig. 1) is a registration of the vowel ah (wire loop oscillograph on a sound film). The track reads from left to right. It is marked off into short ...