Understand

Understand

What Whales are Saying

#### Listen to the Whales

What if their sounds became stories? Take the plunge and discover a hidden world

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CETI is a nonprofit organization applying advanced machine learning and state-of-the-art robotics to listen to and translate the communication of sperm whales. Our research focus is in Dominica in the Eastern Caribbean.

We’re a nonprofit, interdisciplinary scientific and conservation initiative

We’re listening to and translating how other species communicate - starting with the sperm whale. Our mission is simple:

Achieve breakthroughs in decoding sperm whale communication

Share our learnings with the world

Transform human understanding & connectivity

Leverage our findings to protect our oceans and planet

Our Vision

The codas of clicks vary by different groups showing possible culture

With a brain six times the size of humans, untapped potential could be vast

For the first time in history, advances in technology have made it possible to understand the communication of animals.Imagine what would happen if we could understand what other animals are saying? What would they say? What could we learn?

CETI is a listening project that uses advanced machine Learning and robotics to understand what sperm whales are saying. The first phase is to construct a one-of-a-kind large-scale acoustic and behavioral data set to train CETI’s technology to observe whale communication in context and to translate whale-speak.

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Record the movements and sounds of sperm whales.

AERIAL DRONES

Small high-tech suction-cup attached computers

HUNDREDS OF SYNCED UNDERWATER MICROPHONES

SWIMMING ROBOTS

The raw data is processed and prepared for the next step.

Conversation & Behavioral Data

Data visualization

Annotation & PREPARATION

Computers help people learn and understand whale communication.

Machine Learning

Whale Language Model

Linking Behavior & Language

Scientists eventually validate our understanding via carefully designed playback studies.

Linguistics

Language Acquisition

PHONOLOGY & MORPHOLOGY

CETI is taking on this challenge with a 360 approach made possible by an extensive cross-disciplinary team, an initial focus on sperm whales and the design and implementation of cutting-edge technology.

About the TeamPress & Publications

We’ll keep you up-to-date on the latest breakthroughs and progress.

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