Very understandable, hope it works out!

Sounds like a cool project! I have some questions just out of curiosity.

• What type of model are you considering? Would it potentially fit in mobile devices? Would love to open an app or smth after meeting a random cat in the street to estimate its age lol.
• How many recordings are you planning to work with? I don’t have experience with audio but with NLP and many other domains NNs require huge amounts of data to work correctly. What are you thinking to mitigate this issue?
• Do you plan to open-source the model or notify us again when its ready somehow?

Good luck with the project! My cats very rarely meow but if I get to record them I’ll send it to ya.

Internationall, it’s a known fact. Of course the current goverment will try to deny it but in some (many) years in a different political context they might acknowledge it… Guess we’ll see.