FluentPet lets dogs press buttons to communicate with humans. The system has recorded over 20 million button presses across thousands of homes, building a dataset that researchers are using to understand how dogs learn and use words.
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And we're here because the reality of really talking to our dogs is finally a possibility. But in order to get there, we have to get out of the laboratory.
I've designed and launched hardware that's trained thousands of dogs automatically in their own homes. Talking to animals is finally possible because we can combine modern technology with a community of people who are all teaching language in their own homes. So we've built out a platform that engages enthusiastic users and developers to all search together in the massive space that is interspecies communication. You can press a button, And a sound comes out that the dog knows, right? So dogs, we know, can recognize hundreds or even thousands of words. That's actually been scientifically proven. But this lets them actuate a thing that they recognize. So you actually get a push notification on your phone when the button's pressed. And we get— that's how we have over 20 million recorded interspecies communication events.