"Scientists Achieve Breakthrough in Decoding Whale Language"
Originally Published 2 years ago — by Slashdot
Scientists studying whale vocalizations have discovered previously unknown elements that resemble human speech. Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley found that the acoustic properties of sperm whale clicks, such as pitch, are analogous to human vowels and dipthongs. They identified two unique "coda vowels" that are actively exchanged in conversation between whales. The discovery was made after an AI model predicted meaningful elements in whale vocalizations, which were then confirmed through analysis of a dataset of recorded sperm whale codas. The researchers argue that whales are capable of controlling the frequency of their vocalizations.