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Acoustic intelligence

The science behind the bark

No magic, no mind-reading — measurable acoustic signal, honest about what it can and can't tell you.

01

Detect the bark

A CLAP audio encoder decides whether a clip is genuinely a dog bark, recalibrated on real field recordings so it works across breeds and noisy rooms.

02

Extract 22 features

Pitch, bark rate, harmonics-to-noise ratio, spectral shape and more — the acoustic dimensions that decades of bioacoustics research tie to emotional state.

03

Estimate the emotion

A supervised arousal model — trained on labelled husky and shiba recordings — reads energy/arousal, combined with breed-relative acoustic priors for the final state.

How accurate is it, really?

Bark detection is measured. Recalibrated on real recordings — reliably tells a bark from background noise.

Arousal is weak-but-real. Energy level (how worked-up a bark is) tracks a genuine, validated signal.

Valence is the hard part. Positive-vs-negative is closer to an informed estimate today. We show it, we don't oversell it, and your feedback improves it.

Built on peer-reviewed research

  • Yin, S. (2002). A new perspective on barking in dogs. Journal of Comparative Psychology.
  • Pongrácz, P. et al. (2006). Acoustic parameters of dog barks and their emotional content.
  • Pongrácz, P. et al. (2010). Barking in family dogs: an ethological approach. The Veterinary Journal.

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AI Speak Dog — Decoding Dog Emotions

AI acoustic analysis that decodes your dog's emotions in real time. Built on peer-reviewed canine bioacoustics.

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