T. Sainburg

This paper provides a guide for using spectrogram-based dimensionality reduction to create latent space representations of animal vocalizations, demonstrating its application on meerkat calls.

The paper shows that long-range statistical dependencies in language precede complex syntax and are also present in non-linguistic behaviors across species.

The paper develops computational methods to project animal vocalizations into latent spaces for unbiased analysis of acoustic features across species.