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Train Your Dog To Talk
Set up Alexa or other voice operated device to feed the dog when he growls at it correctly. | |
Water is dispensed with another growl, the doggie door
opened with another. The dog gets to figure out which
growl
gets which job done which may take some time, but dogs
have all day.
The initial training would be the hardest, gettng a
certain growl to despense a small doggie treat, but
once
the little guy got that figured out adding to his
vocabulary might be easier as you go along.
I think this is something you'd try to get going right after
birth while the brain is just kickstarting its development.
Set up an array of back scratching machines, fetch toys
etc.
You may come home to see your dog having long involved
conversations with the home computer system.
Plus (per Sgt Teacup) add/upgrade facial recognition API
muzzle recognition software to Alexa, as most dogs tend
to use a combination of long stares, pointed looks, and
rolling eyes to communicate their needs, in addition to
using barks, whines, growls, whinnies, murmurs, and on
one memorable occasion, purring.
Evolutionary path to humanization?
https://i.imgflip.com/kf5fx.jpg
Or just photoshop? [doctorremulac3, Mar 24 2017]
Just coincidence?
http://www.themonol...uploads/Sad-Dog.jpg
This definately says "I'm sorry, sad, depressed" etc. Do wild dogs to this? [doctorremulac3, Mar 24 2017]
Ask them
http://www.clicksui...k/doggle-translate/
Dog command software [wjt, Mar 25 2017]
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You'll need to add/upgrade facial recognition API muzzle recognition software to Alexa, as most dogs tend to use a combination of long stares, pointed looks, and rolling eyes to communicate their needs, in addition to using barks, whines, growls, whinnies, murmurs, and on one memorable occasion, purring. |
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Hmm. Good idea. Facial recognition software is
getting pretty sophisticated and a dog's face is pretty
animated. You don't see that particular face and say
"What does that mean?" They get that furrowed brow,
that dumb look that means "Why no throw ball?" or
'Food you eat to me now?". |
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This should work for other animals too. Squirrels, for example, will learn to navigate complex obstacle courses to reach peanuts; perhaps a couple of squeek-detectors could be incorporated: I'm sure they'd eventually figure them out. |
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This Idea may go against the Evolutionary grain, because
noisy animals tend to become targets of predators.
However, since dogs are somewhat in the "predator"
category, this argument is less applicable for them than it
might be
for, say, squirrels. |
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I think maybe dogs have been moving towards us
evolutionarily for a long time. I would be
interested
to see if non humanized dogs, namely wolves, have
all
those facial expressions that domesticated dogs
have. I'm sure they have the basics, the snarl, tail
up
dominance mode, tail down submissive indicator
etc,
but as far as smiling dogs, not sure if that's only
house pets that do that. |
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The furrowed brow is also a very human facial
signal. The frown is another. |
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//we're not being cowed by a lone wolf// Yes, but I wonder if the security services are feeling sheepish for not having dogged the terrorist more closely? |
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Our dog has 9 distinct facial expressions, and they all mean "feed me", |
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They really should have had a mole. That, shirley, is the elephant in the room. |
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As the old song goes "when your dog runs off with your copy of The Sun, and comes back with the crossword done...". |
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A NZ team are going the other way with software-to-barks
to give farm working dogs freedom to work the command
how they see fit. I don't see, as the database is increased,
that the dogs can't talk back and start to unionize. |
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Going on vacation with a dog living in a house that feed, waters and looks after him will be fun. The hotel doors won't open when barked at, nor the water bowl reveal itself. |
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According to Gary Larsen dogs are just saying "hey" when they bark. Hey, hey, hey! |
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Utter, utter madness. Have you any idea of how much harm this could cause ? Reckless, irresponsible, inconsiderate... why, you'll be suggesting teaching women to read next .... |
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// packs of lone wolves // |
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Yes, but lone wolves, by definition, don't form packs ... |
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Besides, what if you were wolfed by packs of lone cows ? Would that be better, worse, or merely an oxymoron ? Or rather, a cowsymoron ? |
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Cows may moo, but if there's nobody around to listen they won't be herd animals. |
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If a cow sounds its horn in a forest after lighting-up time, is it a mis-steak ? |
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"Mares eat oats and does eat oats, and little lambs eat ivy ..." |
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I doubt it, though an amusing anecdote was once related to Sturton. |
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... and you still are, aren't you? |
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