New Platform – Citizen Science and AI to Decipher Marine Mammal Signals

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New Platform – Citizen Science and AI to Decipher Marine Mammal Signals

https://cetalingua.com/ We are Cetalingua Project, a membership-based participatory platform for citizen scientists. Our platform combines citizen science and artificial intelligence with the goal to crack the communication code of marine mammals. We are building a community of like-minded individuals bound by our love of oceans and their inhabitants, our curiosity, and our desire to solve the mysteries of this world. Our platform is designed to involve, to educate, and to practically train citizen scientists so they can tackle the more advanced data collection and analysis tasks that are needed if we are ever going to successfully crack the marine mammal communication code. With thousands of people participating in all kinds of water activities every week (paddle-boarding, canoeing, kayaking, sailing, fishing, boating, snorkeling, etc.), it becomes possible to collect a large body of behavioral, environmental, and acoustic data with our CetaKits and the CetaScript web app. These data sets can be used to train artificial intelligence models to first identify, classify, and categorize marine mammal vocalizations, then later, to attempt to crack the code. Machine learning has been used to decipher Linear B and could also be used to try and crack other undeciphered languages, like Linear A, rongorongo, even the Voynich manuscript. Deciphering complex non-human communication systems is important to better understand and to preserve marine life. Please check our platform out!