A technology firm claims to have invented a gadget which translates human speech into doggy language.
California-based business Traini is selling what it calls the ‘world’s first real-time human-dog conversational collar’.
Videos posted on the company’s website show the gadget in action.
In one a man asks an app on his phone: ‘Can you get me the remote?’ The translator then turns those words into AI barks, to which the dog actually responds.
Another shows the pet licking a man’s face after the app translated the owner ordering: ‘Give me a kiss’.
Traini’s website describes the tool as ‘the world’s first pet behavioural AI that responds emphatically, built to align technology with pet well-being’.
However celebrity dog trainer Sharon Bolt is doubtful that the app could ever develop into something which allows humans to have full-blown conversations with their beloved pets.
California-based business Traini is selling what it calls the ‘world’s first real-time human-dog conversational collar’.
Videos posted on the company’s website show the gadget in action
She told The Sun: ‘When a dog barks there are different emotions displayed through high pitched and lower gruffer barks.
‘Higher is more anxious or scared while lower is more confident. You can understand how an app might be able to recognise those different emotions.
‘But I can’t see the logic in being able to have a conversation with it. You can train a dog to get a remote.
‘There are certain phrases like dinner or walkies it might understand. But general chit chat, no.’
