Have you ever wondered what your cat or dog is wanting to say? Looks ambitious, right? Well, Baidu is now working on something that can help with it. For those who do not know, Baidu is a Chinese tech company established in 2000, and is known to run the country’s largest search engine. It wants to use AI to understand what animals are feeling or trying to say. The company recently filed a patent China national intellectual property administration It describes a particular system that can transform animal sounds into human language. This system will use a mixture of animal voice, behavior and body signals to estimate the emotions of animals and then convert the feelings that we can understand.

According to the Patent of Baidu, the system will first collect the sounds created by animals, such as Meows, Barks or other vocalization. It will also look at their behavior, such as how they walk or work, as well as like a heart rate like heart rate. All this information will be processed simultaneously using AI to find out what the animal is feeling – such as happiness, fear or hunger. Then, system – in principle – will match these emotions with words or phrases in human language. This can allow people to talk to their pets in a new way.

BAIDU stated in the patent that the system “will allow deep emotional communication and understanding between animals and humans, cross-species will improve the accuracy and efficiency of communication.”

When asked when this product could be prepared, a spokesperson of Baidu said, “We are very interested in filing our patent application. Currently, it is still in the research phase.”

Baidu is not the only person working on this idea. Worldwide, other scientists are also trying to use AI to study how animals communicate. For example, Project Setty (cetacean translation initiative) Studying how sperm whales talk to each other using whale sounds. Another group called The Earth species Project is also working to decod animal communication using technology. The project is supported by large names, including LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman.

After the news of Baidu’s new cattle translation patent, many people started talking on Chinese social media. Some were excited, while others were not sure about the whole idea. A Weibo user wrote, “While it seems impressive, we will need to see how it performs in real -world applications.”