About
A bioacoustic measurement instrument.
BarkScope is not a pet translator. We don't put words in your pet's mouth. We show you measurable acoustic data and pair it with what peer-reviewed research says about similar sound profiles.
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Instrument
Spectrogram, pitch contour, frequency, intensity, duration — the same readings a behavioral scientist would take.
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Literature-grounded
Every observation cites peer-reviewed bioacoustic research. No made-up translations.
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Individualized
BarkScope learns your pet's baseline over time, not a generic species model.
Cited research
Morton, E.S. (1977). On the occurrence and significance of motivation-structural rules in some bird and mammal sounds. American Naturalist.
Pongrácz, P. et al. (2010). Barking in family dogs: An ethological approach. The Veterinary Journal.
Yin, S. & McCowan, B. (2004). Barking in domestic dogs: context specificity and individual identification. Animal Behaviour.
Yeon, S.C. et al. (2011). Differences between vocalization evoked by social stimuli in feral cats. Behavioural Processes.
Schötz, S. & van de Weijer, J. (2014). A study of human perception of intonation in domestic cat meows. Speech Prosody.
McComb, K. et al. (2009). The cry embedded within the purr. Current Biology.
Briefer, E.F. (2012). Vocal expression of emotions in mammals. Journal of Zoology.