Researchers have cracked the code to a sperm whale ‘alphabet’ after using machine learning technologies to understand vocalizations.
In a published paper titled ‘Contextual and Combinatorial Structure in Sperm Whale Vocalisations,’ the sequences of clicks produced by the sperm whales were evaluated by researchers from MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and Project CETI.
These clicks all serve different linguistic functions and are known as coda.