Canadian artists Marc Bohlen and J. T. Rinker have developed the Universal Whistling Machine(U.W.M.) -- in an attempt at developing a new language communication system that computers can understand, the system is a tone-based interpreter of whistles. Using a computation system similar to the chips in mobile phones, the U. W. M. can extract whistles from other sounds, and exchange passages with humans, each other, and animals. Over time, it builds a database of every whistle its ever heard, increasing its vocabulary and range.

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