Research
The science behind the sound.
Key papers, datasets, and resources that ground this project in real research.
Model
DolphinGemma: A Language Model for Dolphin Communication
Google DeepMind & Wild Dolphin Project · 2025
The foundation model powering our demo. Trained on 40+ years of annotated recordings from the Wild Dolphin Project.
Dataset
Wild Dolphin Project — Open Acoustic Dataset
Wild Dolphin Project · Ongoing
Four decades of underwater recordings of Atlantic spotted dolphins in the Bahamas.
Paper
Bottlenose dolphin signature whistles: understanding the mechanism of individual recognition
Janik, V.M. et al. · 2006
Landmark paper establishing that dolphins use signature whistles as names — the first non-human animals shown to use learned, individually specific calls.
Paper
Social learning of a novel foraging skill by wild bottlenose dolphins
Mann, J. & Patterson, E.M. · 2013
Resource
DolphinsIntuition on HuggingFace
Dolphins Intuition · 2026
Our own model experiments, fine-tunes, and audio datasets — open access.