May 12, 2005
KTF begins animal emotion translator service
KTF, Korea's second largest mobile carrier is launching a service that analyzes dog barks and senses the dog's emotional state, reports Telecoms Korea.
"The service deciphers the barks of 55 breeds and the canine emotion breaks down into six categories such a happy, sad, cheerful, needy , frustrated and assertive, which will be sent to the pet owners by SMS messages".
According to the Korea Times, "Similar to human voice recognition, the new offering matches barks with digital patterns of various barks preprogrammed into the cell phone to decipher growls and yelps.
The dog interpreter-equipped phone analyzes voiceprint of the pooch's unique sound into six emotional states _ happiness, sadness, joy, desire, threat and self-expression. Then the phone shows the feelings in the form of 90 sentences, 15 for each emotion, on the monitor like ``I love you,'' ``I am irritated,'' or ``I will sulk if you don't play with me.''
Related dog and cell phone stories:
-- Dog picture taking and bark translator camphone - A new service offered by Vodafone KK, Bow-Lingual Connect, will be able convert dog barks into text messages and expressions as well as display pictures of the dog taken with Sharp's new V601SH cameraphone.
-- Dog Bark Translator for cell phone -- Vodafone KK has announced the launch of Bow-Lingual Connect, available in December, a service that will be able convert dog barks into text messages and expressions as well as display pictures of the dog taken with the handset's built-in mobile camera phone.
-- Find a dog with a cell phone -- South Koreas SK Telecom announced the implementation of an "Abandoned Pet Adoption Campaign" that is designed to look for new owners for abandoned dogs through the wireless Internet NATE Service.
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