Season 11 ~ Episode #54 - - - Testing Wine For Cats

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K-ModPermalink Reply by Gumbo123 on March 30, 2017 at 5:31pm

today's GMMore - - - Testing The Bow Lingual Bark Translator

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BowLingual

BowLingual (バウリンガル^?), or "Bow-Lingual" as the North American version is spelled, is a computer-based dog-to-human language translation device developed by Japanese toy company Takara and first sold in Japan in 2002. Versions for South Korea and the United States were launched in 2003. The device was named by Time magazine as a "Best Invention of 2002." The inventors of BowLingual, Keita Satoh, Dr. Matsumi Suzuki and Dr. Norio Kogure were awarded the Ig Nobel Prize for "promoting peace and harmony between the species."

The device is presented as a "translator" but has been called an "emotion analyzer". It is said to use technology to categorize dog barks into one of six standardized emotional categories. BowLingual also provides a phrase which is representative of that emotion. The product instructions clearly state that these phrases "are for entertainment purposes only" and are not meant to be accurate translations of each bark.

DUG has had this thing figured out for quite a while already . . .