Why we need to talk openly about vaccine side effects
We need to talk openly about vaccine side effects if we are to defeat the coronavirus pandemicCredit: Aarhus University Concerns ...
Tag: Language/Linguistics/Speech
Language technologies: Zoom acquires KIT’s spin-off kites
Computer scientists from KIT are experts for real-time speech recognition and translation - kites team to help improve Zoom's machine ...
NSF-funded study will examine college tenure and promotion process, challenge assumptions
Lehigh University researchers are part of a study that seeks to shed new light on the role of research productivity ...
Balancing speech intelligibility, face covering effectiveness in classrooms
Though masks are necessary for curbing the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, their impacts on teachers' speech intelligibility may affect ...
Study finds age doesn’t affect perception of ‘speech-to-song illusion’
Credit: KU LAWRENCE -- A strange thing sometimes happens when we listen to a spoken phrase again and again: It ...
Electric fish — and humans — pause before communicating key points
Credit: Tsunehiko Kohashi American writer and humorist Mark Twain, a master of language and noted lecturer, once offered, "The right ...
Researchers shed light on the evolution of extremist groups
Findings suggest new strategies to limit the growth of groups like the Boogaloo and ISISCredit: Neil Johnson/GW WASHINGTON (May 19, ...
It is time to create contracts all users can understand
New research presents a novel four-step user-centered contract design processCredit: Kevin Finnegan Contracts today are complex and not user-friendly. The ...
Proposal of new universal nomenclature for oxytocin and vasotocin genes
Terminological confusion between speciesCredit: UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA Oxytocin and arginine vasopressin are two hormones in the endocrine system that can ...
Cognitive neuroscience could pave the way for emotionally intelligent robots
Researchers propose a novel auditory perception based feature for extracting emotions from human speech using neural networksCredit: Masashi Unoki Ishikawa, ...
Linguists predict unknown words using language comparison
A new linguistic experiment uses computer-assisted techniques for historical language comparison to show how scholars can predict pronunciations of undocumented ...
Sounds familiar: A speaker identity-controllable framework for machine speech translation
Researchers propose a deep learning-based model for mimicking and continuously modifying speaker voice identity during speech translationCredit: Masato Akagi Ishikawa, ...
Can a newborn’s brain discriminate speech sounds?
Decoding the spectral and temporal fine structure of soundCredit: UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA People's ability to perceive speech sounds has been ...
Verbal fluency deficits in multiple sclerosis may reflect impaired language ability
Researchers at Kessler Foundation upend long-held assumption that language ability is largely intact in individuals with multiple sclerosis, suggesting the ...