Atmo from WildQuest posted this great video of Bottlenose Dolphins, and it got me all excited about dolphins. I’ve enjoyed Atmo’s still pictures of dolphins since we met him four years ago, but this is the first time I remember hearing actual underwater audio from him. You probably won’t be surprised that the sound itself provides a shortcut to the memories of our experiences swimming with dolphins (and Atmo, Amlas and the rest of the WildQuest crew). Just for fun, I took a piece of the audio from his video and cleaned it up a bit with some of our dialog restoration tools:
BEFORE:
AFTER:
(audio from video copyright Atmoji)
In the process, I also got to see some of the sounds in a spectrometer, and it was really cool to see how pure the dolphin’s vocalization is:
