PBS’s Wednesday NOVA special “Can Dogs Talk” examines the scientific evidence by exploring the viral social media  phenomenon ...

The Nature of Things explores how dogs might be using human language with the help of buttons on a soundboard.

Premieres Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream with KPBS+. Can dogs understand what we say—and talk back?

Premieres February 4 @ 9 p.m. on PBS ...

In this short clip I show how I train my dogs in China to “speak” Chinese using colored talking buttons. Each button plays a simple Mandarin phrase, and the dogs respond in their own hilarious way. I ...

A ‘NOVA’ special examines the question of canine communication—and whether the internet’s viral ‘button dogs’ have any actual grasp of language.

It's great that dogs respond positively to certain pitches and tones, because people who baby talk their dogs usually have these 11 specific personality traits.

The research suggests that dogs have the neurological capacity to eavesdrop and learn new words when they hear humans talking ...

We may be able to interpret what our furbabies are saying soon, thanks to AI. But we don’t really need to talk to animals in ...

PBS science series examines what dogs’ use of soundboard buttons can reveal about language and cognition ...

This is not comparable to word learning in children. By around age two, typical English-speaking children learn approximately ...