Dog Barking Diary

This sample week was recorded before Bark Marker began stamping each incident with a clock check, so its times are the unit’s own. In a current report each incident shows whether the unit’s clock had been checked against a phone or an internet time source during the same power-on.

Distribution by time of day

Daily summary

Incident log

Tip: rotate your phone, or swipe the table sideways, to see every column.

Methodology & declaration

Barking was captured by a fixed directional microphone monitoring the property boundary, recording continuously to timestamped digital audio. Events were detected automatically by an on-device sound-recognition model, refined against barking the operator confirmed as genuine during review, and each retained event was confirmed on review of the recording. Event breakdown: aggressive ×1, bark ×12, bark ×13, single ×9. All times are shown in the recorder’s local timezone. An audio recording of every one of the 35 logged incidents is retained (16 kHz mono) and available on request; any incidental human speech detected nearby a bark is automatically muted from the retained audio (or the clip withheld entirely where speech could not be cleanly separated from the bark), so only the dog’s barking is preserved as evidence. Level readings (dBFS) are relative to this recording unit’s own full scale as calibrated at setup for its placement, and are not absolute sound-pressure (SPL/dB(A)) measurements; the Level column is a same-unit relative visual only.

I declare that the above is a true and accurate record of barking observed and recorded at the times and dates stated.