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DolphinGemma: How Google AI is helping decode dolphin communication

DolphinGemma: How Google AI is helping decode dolphin communication

DolphinGemma text over a picture of dolphins
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Dolphins swimming in the water

A pod of Atlantic spotted dolphins, Stenella frontalis

A split image: left, a dolphin touching the sandy seabed underwater; right, a spectrogram with bright vertical streaks indicating high-frequency sounds.

Left: A mother spotted dolphin observes her calf while foraging. She will use her unique signature whistle to call the calf back after he is finished. Right: Spectrogram to visualize the whistle.

Two spectrograms: left shows three arching sound patterns; right shows a more uniform sound pattern.

Left: Whistles (left) and burst pulses (right) generated during early testing of DolphinGemma.

CHAT explainer video
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Two portraits: left, a woman on a boat holding a device; right, a man indoors wearing headphones and holding a similar device.

Left: Dr. Denise Herzing wearing “Chat Senior, 2012”, Right: Georgia Tech PhD Student Charles Ramey wearing “Chat Junior, 2025”

Pixel phone inside a case hooked up to cables

A Google Pixel 9 inside the latest CHAT system hardware.

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