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Vowel- and Diphthong-Like Spectral Patterns in Sperm Whale Codas
Following on predictions from Approaching an unknown …, we identify concrete patterns in sperm whale communication that are analogous to human vowels and diphthongs.
Gašper Beguš, Ronald L. Sprouse, Andrej Leban, Miles Silva, Shane Gero
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Vowel- and Diphthong-Like Spectral Patterns in Sperm Whale Codas
Approaching an unknown communication system by latent space exploration and causal inference
We propose a novel methodology - Causal Disentanglement with Extreme Values (CDEV) - to identify representations learned by GANs. When trained on raw whale communication, it finds - for the first time - specific acoustic attributes that might serve as carriers of meaning.
Gašper Beguš, Andrej Leban, Shane Gero
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Approaching an unknown communication system by latent space exploration and causal inference