Dog Translator

Listens to a bark, watches your dog, and makes its best guess.

1. Watch your dog

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Camera is off. Tap Start Listening to turn it on.

Camera off –

The camera measures how much is moving, by comparing each picture to the one before it. It cannot tell a tail from a head — so a person walking past counts too.

No dog around? Pretend: 👇

2. How big is your dog?

A small dog's bark is always higher than a big dog's. Telling the app your dog's size moves the goalposts, so it judges your dog fairly instead of every dog the same.

3. Listen for barks

The gold line is the bark line. Sounds louder than it count as a bark. It moves itself to suit the room.

–Bark type

–Speed

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No dog around? Use the test buttons below. 👇

4. Where is your dog standing?

This matters a lot. The same bark means different things at the food bowl and at the front door.

5. Best guess

WAITING FOR A BARK

Tap “Start Listening”, or press a test bark button.

How sure

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How does this actually work?

The app measures only four things:

1. Pitch — how high or low the bark is. High squeaky barks usually mean excited or playful. Low grumbly barks usually mean alert or warning.

2. Speed — how quickly the barks repeat. Fast repeated barks mean the dog is more worked up. Slow spaced-out barks mean calmer.

3. Place — where the dog is standing, which you tap in yourself.

4. Movement — how much is changing on camera. It shrinks each video picture down and counts how many pixels are different from the picture before. Lots of change means a bouncing, wagging dog. It cannot tell a tail from a head — a person walking past counts too.

Then it looks up an answer in a list of rules. It is a guess, not real translation. Nobody can turn barks into English sentences — but pitch, speed, place and movement really do tell you something.