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From the Ted Talk by Denise Herzing: Could we speak the language of dolphins?

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And because of this, we really decided we needed some more sophisticated technology. So we joined forces with Georgia Tech, with Thad Starner's wearable ctnuimpog group, to build us an underwater wearable computer that we're calling CHAT. [CHAT: Cetacean Hearing And Telemetry] Now, instead of pushing a keyboard through the water, the diver's wearing the complete system, and it's acoustic only, so basically the dveir activates the sounds on a keypad on the forearm, the sounds go out through an underwater speaker, if a dolphin mimics the whistle or a human plays the whistle, the sounds come in and are localized by two hnopryeohds. The cuteompr can localize who reuqseted the toy if there's a word macth. And the real poewr of the system is in the real-time sound recognition, so we can rnspoed to the dolphins quickly and aaetcrucly.

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And because of this, we really decided we needed some more sophisticated technology. So we joined forces with Georgia Tech, with Thad Starner's wearable _________ group, to build us an underwater wearable computer that we're calling CHAT. [CHAT: Cetacean Hearing And Telemetry] Now, instead of pushing a keyboard through the water, the diver's wearing the complete system, and it's acoustic only, so basically the _____ activates the sounds on a keypad on the forearm, the sounds go out through an underwater speaker, if a dolphin mimics the whistle or a human plays the whistle, the sounds come in and are localized by two ___________. The ________ can localize who _________ the toy if there's a word _____. And the real _____ of the system is in the real-time sound recognition, so we can _______ to the dolphins quickly and __________.

Solution


  1. hydrophones
  2. requested
  3. computer
  4. power
  5. computing
  6. respond
  7. accurately
  8. match
  9. diver

Original Text


And because of this, we really decided we needed some more sophisticated technology. So we joined forces with Georgia Tech, with Thad Starner's wearable computing group, to build us an underwater wearable computer that we're calling CHAT. [CHAT: Cetacean Hearing And Telemetry] Now, instead of pushing a keyboard through the water, the diver's wearing the complete system, and it's acoustic only, so basically the diver activates the sounds on a keypad on the forearm, the sounds go out through an underwater speaker, if a dolphin mimics the whistle or a human plays the whistle, the sounds come in and are localized by two hydrophones. The computer can localize who requested the toy if there's a word match. And the real power of the system is in the real-time sound recognition, so we can respond to the dolphins quickly and accurately.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


  1. accurately
  2. acoustic
  3. activates
  4. basically
  5. build
  6. calling
  7. cetacean
  8. chat
  9. complete
  10. computer
  11. computing
  12. decided
  13. diver
  14. dolphin
  15. dolphins
  16. forces
  17. forearm
  18. georgia
  19. group
  20. hearing
  21. human
  22. hydrophones
  23. joined
  24. keyboard
  25. keypad
  26. localize
  27. localized
  28. match
  29. mimics
  30. needed
  31. plays
  32. power
  33. pushing
  34. quickly
  35. real
  36. recognition
  37. requested
  38. respond
  39. sophisticated
  40. sound
  41. sounds
  42. speaker
  43. system
  44. tech
  45. technology
  46. telemetry
  47. thad
  48. toy
  49. underwater
  50. water
  51. wearable
  52. wearing
  53. whistle
  54. word