# Crazy talk: a phone system for whales? **URL:** \ **Category:** Community\ **Created:** [December 25, 2023, 2:52pm UTC](https://bristlemouth.discourse.group/t/crazy-talk-a-phone-system-for-whales/223 "2023-12-25T14:52:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![gherlein](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/bristlemouth.discourse.group/gherlein/32/116_2.png) [@gherlein](https://bristlemouth.discourse.group/u/gherlein)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2023, 2:52pm UTC](https://bristlemouth.discourse.group/t/crazy-talk-a-phone-system-for-whales/223/1 "2023-12-25T14:52:54Z")
My humble efforts plan for Spotter-based listening posts to record whale song… but it’s not too science fictiony to imagine using them to talk back to whales. My “project launch” blog post: [https://blog.herlein.com/post/bristlemouth-pioneer/](https://blog.herlein.com/post/bristlemouth-pioneer/) ---
**Author:** ![AngelSharks](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/bristlemouth.discourse.group/angelsharks/32/94_2.png) [@AngelSharks](https://bristlemouth.discourse.group/u/AngelSharks)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2023, 4:30pm UTC](https://bristlemouth.discourse.group/t/crazy-talk-a-phone-system-for-whales/223/2 "2023-12-28T16:30:18Z")
Pedro V Marcel an author who has a lifetime achievement award in Marine Engineering and AI was on our Angel Sharks XPRIZE Carbon team before his death in October 2023, He was writing a book on Natural Language Understanding (NLU) but it was never published before he died he was convinced improvements in AI could solve the translation problem between Marine Mammals and Man. I helped him edit his book so will ask permission from his sons to share it privately. Allan Grovesnor at MSB.ai a company I advise for will be at CES in Las Vegas as well and his company has the AI time on Frontier HPC at Oak Ridge Computer Leadership to perhaps help. ---
**Author:** ![oscar\_b](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/53a042/32.png) [@oscar\_b](https://bristlemouth.discourse.group/u/oscar_b)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2023, 4:27pm UTC](https://bristlemouth.discourse.group/t/crazy-talk-a-phone-system-for-whales/223/3 "2023-12-30T16:27:09Z")
Thanks for the post! Interested to hear about hydrophone integration and what you find in the recordings ---
**Author:** ![tosca](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/bristlemouth.discourse.group/tosca/32/14_2.png) [@tosca](https://bristlemouth.discourse.group/u/tosca)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2024, 9:49pm UTC](https://bristlemouth.discourse.group/t/crazy-talk-a-phone-system-for-whales/223/4 "2024-01-02T21:49:04Z")
@gherlein I really enjoyed your blog post - thanks for taking the time to lay out your project in detail! I’m excited to follow along. ---
**Author:** ![AngelSharks](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/bristlemouth.discourse.group/angelsharks/32/94_2.png) [@AngelSharks](https://bristlemouth.discourse.group/u/AngelSharks)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2024, 7:26am UTC](https://bristlemouth.discourse.group/t/crazy-talk-a-phone-system-for-whales/223/5 "2024-01-06T07:26:33Z")
Nice blog, keep recording so someday we have enough data for AI to use. here project called CETI [https://youtu.be/1Q\_APw2Z\_G4?si=jSpLroDc7ixNxquv](https://youtu.be/1Q_APw2Z_G4?si=jSpLroDc7ixNxquv) ---
**Author:** ![gherlein](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/bristlemouth.discourse.group/gherlein/32/116_2.png) [@gherlein](https://bristlemouth.discourse.group/u/gherlein)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2024, 2:29pm UTC](https://bristlemouth.discourse.group/t/crazy-talk-a-phone-system-for-whales/223/6 "2024-01-14T14:29:21Z")
UPDATE: I have my DevKit, but it had to ship to California and I’m in Mexico. I’ll be arranging to get it here shortly and I can get going!