# Project CETI

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**Project CETI** is an international initiative to understand the acoustic communication of [sperm whales](/source/Sperm_whales) using advances in [artificial intelligence](/source/Artificial_intelligence).[1][2] The project has an interdisciplinary scientific board including [marine biologists](/source/Marine_biologist), artificial intelligence researchers, roboticists, theoretical computer scientists, and linguists. Its name, **Ce**tacean **T**ranslation **I**nitiative,[3] is a reference to the [SETI Institute](/source/SETI_Institute).[4] The project has a base on the island of [Dominica](/source/Dominica) where recordings are being collected.[5]

The organization has been selected as a [TED Audacious Project](/source/The_Audacious_Project).[6] CETI researchers have identified 156 distinct codas and their basic components, a "sperm whale phonetic alphabet" much like [phonemes](/source/Phoneme).[7]

## See also

- [Whale sound](/source/Whale_sound)
- [Human–animal communication](/source/Human%E2%80%93animal_communication)
- [Animal cognition](/source/Animal_cognition)
- [Animal communication](/source/Animal_communication)
- [Interspecies communication](/source/Interspecies_communication)
- [Communication with extraterrestrial intelligence](/source/Communication_with_extraterrestrial_intelligence)

## References

1. Welch, Craig (April 19, 2021). ["Groundbreaking effort launched to decode whale language"](https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/scientists-plan-to-use-ai-to-try-to-decode-the-language-of-whales). *NGS*. National Geographic Society. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20210419151847/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/scientists-plan-to-use-ai-to-try-to-decode-the-language-of-whales) April 19, 2021 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved October 28, 2021.

1. Anthes, Emily (August 30, 2022). ["The Animal Translators"](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/30/science/translators-animals-naked-mole-rats.html). *[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)*. Retrieved October 28, 2022.

1. [Are We on the Verge of Chatting with Whales?](https://hakaimagazine.com/features/are-we-on-the-verge-of-chatting-with-whales/) Christoph Droesser, *Hakai*, October 26, 2021

1. Kolbert, Elizabeth (September 4, 2023). ["Can We Talk to Whales?"](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/09/11/can-we-talk-to-whales). The New Yorker. Retrieved September 4, 2023.

1. Andreas J, Beguš G, Bronstein MM, Diamant R, Delaney D, Gero S et al. (2022). "Toward understanding the communication in sperm whales.". *iScience*. **25** (6). [Bibcode:2022iSci...25j4393A](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022iSci...25j4393A). [doi:10.1016/j.isci.2022.104393](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2022.104393). [PMC 9160774](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9160774). [PMID 35663036](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35663036)

1. ["The Audacious Project: Project CETI"](https://www.audaciousproject.org/grantees/project-ceti). *www.audaciousproject.org*. Retrieved October 28, 2022.

1. [The sperm whale 'phonetic alphabet' revealed by AI](https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240709-the-sperm-whale-phonetic-alphabet-revealed-by-ai) BBC News, Katherine Latham and Anna Bressanin, 11 July 2024

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