Got it, thank you so much!

That’s ok! I will isolate the meows, so that’s fine :) my cats are the same

I’ll take it on a case by case basis, if a cat is certainly over say 10 years old I can classify it as a senior but if it could be 3 or 7 it is more tricky.

Please record her for me if you can! I don’t have many seniors yet.

Thank you, I am very excited to be working on this.

I would like to keep the full development details under wraps for now, but I will of course release everything in full once the project is finished! I would love it if people could use my research for their work. The idea is to build an app but this depends on the accuracy that I will achieve and time limit.

I shall report back to you in a few months!

Thank you! Whines could be useful, if you manage to capture any feel free to send it over :)

That’s fine! I have included the dolby app as standard phone recorders generally don’t seem to export in true lossless, and compress it. The Dolby app allows export in Waveform Audio File format (.wav) which I process the data in, but if you have something similar that is fine too.

Cat activation sound, love it.

I don’t require the exact age, but the age would need to be certain on the year as I will be grouping the cats into age brackets [kitten, young adult, adult, senior].

Hello, rightful questions - apologies for not including this!

I’m an MSc student in AI and this is for my dissertation. I did consider a Google form or similar, however via email seemed easiest considering the Dolby app has a direct share option (I am not affiliated no, but I do think it is an excellent app). In terms of approval, I received ethical approval from my university to go ahead with my research proposal.

Every participant will receive an email with the further points you mention. I’ll attach a copy here.

And thanks for the heads up, I will include this info when I post elsewhere.