How will you train this? I understand it replicating bird songs, but what data will it use for actual translation?
Do you know how to hear the generated sounds? Pressing the buttons shows a "playing" console message but there's no audio.
Animals don't use a known syntax per se, so it wouldn't be authentic translation, but a transliteration may be possible. Also, there is no guarantee that one animal doing something (like a dog's behavior for going to the bathroom) maps to many or all dogs.
Sometimes birds communicate nonverbally as well, as in gaze direction and body posture.
I'm no ornithologist, for forgive my ignorance, but shouldn't there be bunch of papers out there where researchers try to infer the meaning of various sounds birds produce, together with a description of the sound and even samples of it? I don't know how numerous that could be, but could maybe be used as a starting point at least.
FWIW there’s no research to indicate that the sounds birds make are what we’d call language. They’re avid communicators, and some species are known to be highly intelligent, but of course it’s not like “caw” means “to fly” and “craah” is “forward”.
There are stationary feeders in the neighborhood, but the birds don’t seem to associate the humans filling them with their food, and subsequently just use warning calls when they see humans approaching the feeders.
But whenever they see me, even in the summer, they use that call. Blue tits have their own, shorter variation of it.
I like to think they’ve given me a name in their language :-)
Probably best for everyone involved to not understand the meaning of the name they gave you too! :)