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Machine learning helps to discover sperm whale ‘alphabet’
Researchers have cracked the code to some kind of sperm whale ‘alphabet’ after using machine learning to understand vocalizations.
The function of each sound isn’t yet known, but the results “show that the sperm whale communication system is, in principle, capable of representing a large space of possible meanings…” The research into the sperm whale language was made possible through the use of machine learning which was deployed to analyze a dataset of 8,719 codas from the Eastern Caribbean region. Heading straight into a regional newsroom, after graduating with a BA (Hons) degree in Journalism, Sophie started by working for Reach PLC.
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