She said, The invention of digital bioacoustics is analogous to the invention of the microscope.

她说，数字生物声的发明就像显微镜的发明一样重要。

So there are teams of computer scientists and linguists and biologists working on decoding sperm whale bioacoustics.

有很多计算机、语言、生物组队破译抹香鲸的生物声。

And that's what digital bioacoustics is doing with audio for the study of animal communication.

这正是数字生物声结合音频，对动物交流研究产生的影响。

He specializes in bioacoustics: how animals produce sound and communicate with the sounds they make.

动物如何发出声音并利用声音交流。

So bioacoustics is a big piece of it, as well as the resonance of the forest-how things reflect.

所以生物声是其中的一个重要部分，同样重要的还有森林的共振——事物如何反射。

I'm joined today by conservation bioacoustics researcher Isla Keesje Davidson, who studies the changing soundscape of the sea.

今天来到节目现场的是保护生物声研究员伊斯拉·凯西·戴维森，她研究海洋声景的变化。

In the emerging field of bioacoustics, scientists are looking at how to protect and conserve our planet by listening to it.

在新兴的生物声领域，们正在研究如何通过聆听来保护我们的星球。

So, he turned to bioacoustics, which uses sound to learn more about animal life and the environments in which they live.

因此，他转向生物声，利用声音来了解更多关于动物生活及其生活环境的知识。

Her book explores how researchers are leveraging new tech to understand animal communication even in the burgeoning field of digital bioacoustics.

她的书探讨了研究人员如何利用新技术来了解动物的交流——甚至在数字生物声这个新兴领域。

So bioacoustics is a big piece of it, as well as the resonance of the forest—how things reflect.

所以生物声是其中的重要组成部分，还有森林的共振——事物如何反映。

So what if we were to use bioacoustics for something of immediate practical value, like doing something about our massive biodiversity crisis?

如果我们将生物声用于立竿见影的实际用途上，如解决我们大规模的生物多样性危机，会如何？

I'd love to end on one quote from her. She said, The invention of digital bioacoustics is analogous to the invention of the microscope.

我想引用她的话来结尾。她说: “数字生物声的发明与显微镜的发明类似。

But if we can address the massive epidemic of noise pollution that is harming and killing marine creatures, we could use bioacoustics to restore some biodiversity.

但如果我们可以解决伤害、杀害海洋生物的大规模噪音污染，我们就可以利用生物声恢复些许生物多样性。

Digital bioacoustics. Huh. So what does that actually look like? Are we trying to make animals talk like humans using translation collars like in the movie Up?

数字生物声。嗯。那它到底是什么样的呢? 难道我们要像电影《飞屋环游记》那样，使用翻译项圈让动物像人类一样说话吗?

And maybe one day in a speculative future, instead of a human here on stage, maybe bioacoustics would enable an orca to give a TED talk.

也许有朝一日，在想象的未来中，不再是人类站在台上，也许生物声能让虎鲸带来一场 TED 演讲。

That's Marc Holderied of the University of Bristol in the U.K. He specializes in bioacoustics: how animals produce sound and communicate with the sounds they make.

那是英布里斯托尔大的 Marc Holderied。 他专攻生物声：动物如何发出声音并通过它们发出的声音进行交流。

Now today we're using bioacoustics to protect species and decode their communication, but tomorrow, I believe, we'll be using bioacoustics combined with machine intelligence to explore the frontiers of biological intelligence.

今天，我们用生物声保护物种，解密它们的交流，但明天，我相信我们会用生物声，结合上机器智能，探索生物智能的前沿。

Right, exactly. This new field of digital bioacoustics uses portable field recorders that are like mini microphones you can put pretty much anywhere--in trees, on mountaintops, even on the backs of whales and birds.

的确如此。数字生物声这个新领域使用便携式现场录音机——就像个迷你麦克风，你可以把它放在任何地方，比如树上、山顶甚至鲸鱼和鸟的背上。

So to address this, scientists are now launching a new bioacoustics program off the east coast of North America to triangulate the locations of whales and convey the information to ships' captains in real time.

为了解决这个问题，启动了一项全新的生物声计划，位于北美东海岸，三角定位鲸鱼，实时将信息发送给船长。

Then also you can take some of this as a tool-so bioacoustics, you know, is one of the ways in which we can monitor these environments because as I said with WOPAM, it's a passive acoustic monitoring.

你也可以把其中一些作为工具——生物声是我们用来监测这些环境的方式之一，正如我所说的WOPAM，它是一种被动声监测。