T. Sainburg

A practical guide for generating unsupervised, spectrogram-based latent space representations of animal vocalizations

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.

Long-range sequential dependencies precede complex syntactic production in language acquisition

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

Latent space visualization, characterization, and generation of diverse vocal communication signals

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