Teaching Dogs to Speak is Easier than you think

In this story Melody Jackson an associate professor at Georgia Institute of Technology is developing tech that give a voice to a dog. This tech is a vest designed for dogs to help them communicate to someone in countless events of emergency.  To test the vest they use Sky an 8 year old border collie to tell them if something works or not. During use of the vest the dogs were trained to bite or nudge a sensor on the vest to tell the trainer is it's a frisbee or a ball. They want to develop another vest to help in medical emergencies so that the dog could nudge a sensor on the vest and call 911, send its GPS location and text the owner family all at once with them knowing 911 is on its way. Jackson believes that any trained dog would be able to learn how to use this technology.

This article was very interesting because jackson was able to bring her training of assistance dogs and work with technology together. It also shows a more effective way for service dogs to help their handler in situations.

The full article is on the CNN website: http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/18/tech/talking-dogs-georgia-institute-technology/index.html