2025
Towards A Translative Model of Sperm Whale Vocalization
Orr Paradise, Liangyuan Chen, Pranav Muralikrishnan, Hugo Flores García, Bryan Pardo, Roee Diamant +3
NeurIPS 2025poster
Sperm whales communicate in short sequences of clicks known as codas. We present WhAM (Whale Acoustics Model), the first transformer-based model capable of generating synthetic sperm whale codas from any audio prompt. WhAM is built by finetuning VampNet, a masked acoustic token model pretrained on m…