A TECH company is flogging a Doctor Dolittle-style gadget that it claims translates human speech into doggy language.
Traini is offering what it calls the “world’s first real-time human-dog conversational collar”.
A clip on its website shows a man ask, “Can you get me the remote?” — which a phone app turns into barks to which a mutt responds.
In another, a dog licks the man’s face when the £512 collar emits a couple of woofs as he says: “Give me a kiss.”
The AI collar also acts like a smartwatch with real-time health monitoring and GPS tracking, Traini says.
The company, based in California, US, said its gizmo enabled owners “to talk and understand even the most complex behaviours, helping unlock a pet’s potential”.
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Behavioural expert and celebrity dog trainer, Sharon Bolt, told The Sun: “When a dog barks there are different emotions displayed through high pitched and lower gruffer barks.
“Higher is more anxious or scared while lower is more confident.
“You can understand how an app might be able to recognise those different emotions.
“But I can’t see the logic in being able to have a conversation with it.
“You can train a dog to get a remote.
“There are certain phrases like dinner or walkies it might understand. But general chit chat, no.”
