The Canadian scientist and author Karen Bakker, who died unexpectedly in August this year, was a leading voice in the bioacoustic research community. Her 2022 book, The Sounds of Life, explained how it might one day be possible to create a kind of Google Translate for animals and was the inspiration behind this Tech Tonic series. This episode contains the full interview that we recorded with her. We are posting it as a tribute to her remarkable work.  Free links: Google Translate for the zoo? How humans might talk to animals Karen Bakker, scientist and author, 1971-2023 How generative AI really works Credits: Elephant bee rumble from Lucy King Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.