Tuesday, May 20, 2008

What's in a 'woof'? Computer interprets prison dog barks - USATODAY.com

What's in a 'woof'? Computer interprets prison dog barks - USATODAY.com: "Six years ago, the Prisons Service joined with Bio-Sense, a high-tech company headquartered near Tel Aviv, to create a system that would notify them when dogs were barking because of something suspicious.

Bio-Sense recorded the patrol dogs barking in different situations, from playtime to cat encounters to real emergencies. They loaded thousands of these recordings into a computer program to determine 'what makes the emergency bark different than the other barks,' said Bio-Sense project manager Orit Netz."

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