Pioneering study aims to enable humans to talk to Sperm whales

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Update as of 4/30/2021: Talking with whales Project aims to translate sperm whale calls

"... The new interdisciplinary Cetacean Translation Initiative (CETI) kicks off this week at a press conference in Dominica in the Caribbean, where the project will take place. University of Haifa scientists will be joined by colleagues in marine biology, marine acoustics, artificial intelligence, and linguistics from Harvard University, The City University of New York (CUNY), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Imperial College London, U.C. Berkeley and others. ...
The Sperm whale, which is considered a vulnerable species, has the largest brain on Earth, more than five times heavier than a human’s. Like humans, it also has a complex communication system and lives in tightly knit family groups. ..."

"Project CETI (Cetacean Translation Initiative) is a transdisciplinary research initiative bringing together leading technologists, roboticists, cryptographers, linguists, and marine scientists to study the communication of the world’s largest toothed predator: the sperm whale.
In the late 1960s [not very long ago], scientists, including Dr. Roger Payne, a guiding member and principal advisor of Project CETI discovered that whales sing to one another. His recordings, Songs of the Humpback Whale, sparked the “Save the Whales” movement, one of the most successful conservation initiatives. ..."

Pioneering study aims to enable humans to talk to whales - ISRAEL21c In an ambitious five year project, top Israel, US and UK research institutes plan to learn how to communicate with Sperm whales. What WILL they talk about?

The project website: https://www.projectceti.org/