AI eavesdrops on dolphins and discovers six unknown click types

Computer program picked out the noises from underwater recordings of 52 million echolocation signals

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LISTENING IN  A computer code picked out six new types of dolphin clicks from several months’ worth of underwater sound recordings.

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A new computer program has an ear for dolphin chatter.

The algorithm uncovered six previously unknown types of dolphin echolocation clicks in underwater recordings from the Gulf of Mexico, researchers report online December 7 in PLOS Computational Biology.