Does My Dog ''Speak'' Like Me? The Acoustic Correlation between Pet Dogs and Their Human Owners

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2309.13085v1
• Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2023 23:49:21 GMT
• Title: Does My Dog ''Speak'' Like Me? The Acoustic Correlation between Pet Dogs and Their Human Owners
• Authors: Jieyi Huang, Chunhao Zhang, Yufei Wang, Mengyue Wu, Kenny Zhu
• Abstract summary: This paper presents a preliminary investigation into the possible correlation between domestic dog vocal expressions and their human host's language environment. We first present a new dataset of Shiba Inu dog vocals from YouTube, which provides 7500 clean sound clips. With a classification task and prominent factor analysis, we discover significant acoustic differences in the dog vocals from the two language environments.
• Score: 19.422796780268605
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: How hosts language influence their pets' vocalization is an interesting yet underexplored problem. This paper presents a preliminary investigation into the possible correlation between domestic dog vocal expressions and their human host's language environment. We first present a new dataset of Shiba Inu dog vocals from YouTube, which provides 7500 clean sound clips, including their contextual information of these vocals and their owner's speech clips with a carefully-designed data processing pipeline. The contextual information includes the scene category in which the vocal was recorded, the dog's location and activity. With a classification task and prominent factor analysis, we discover significant acoustic differences in the dog vocals from the two language environments. We further identify some acoustic features from dog vocalizations that are potentially correlated to their host language patterns.

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