Babelfish in real life - Software instantaneously translated dolphin whistle

03/26/2014 - 00:00

By Hal Hodson - 

Software has performed the first real-time translation of a dolphin whistle – and better data tools are giving fresh insights into primate communication too

IT was late August 2013 and Denise Herzing was swimming in the Caribbean. The dolphin pod she had been tracking for the past 25 years was playing around her boat. Suddenly, she heard one of them say, "Sargassum".

READ MORE ON NEWSCIENTIST