It is now possible to reconstruct spoken sentences from activity patterns of the human brain surface. “Brain to Text” combines knowledge from neuroscience, medicine and informatics.
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The humanized gene actually improved the animal’s behavior rather than messing up the system.
According to a new study, mice that receive a human version of a speech and language gene display accelerated learning. Don’t expect these findings to lead to a rush of smarter, “uplifted” animals—though they might just reveal something new and fascinating about the evolution of human speech and language.
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Microsoft has posted a video with a complementary explanation of language translation that goes far past what we thought was currently possible. The speaker explains and demonstrates improvements made to the machine understanding of his English words, which are automatically transcribed as he speaks. He then demonstrates having those words translated directly into Mandarin.
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Scientists could soon be able to eavesdrop on the constant, internal monologs that run through people’s minds, or hear the imagined speech of those patients who cannot speak, a new study has revealed.
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The person’s speech provides all the cues to detect deception.
A professor of computer science at Columbia University, Julia Hirschberg, may spell trouble for a lot of liars. That’s because Dr. Hirschberg is teaching computers how to spot deception — programming them to parse people’s speech for patterns that gauge whether they are being honest.
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Regional accents are the hallmark of who you are and are a tie to communities.
The United States is an international melting pot and the average American makes a dozen moves in a lifetime. And regional accents are alive and well in America. ,William Labov, a professor of linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, says, in fact, regional accents are becoming stronger and more different from each other although it’s not entirely clear why.
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Comedian and talk show host Conan O’Brien delivered the Class of 2011 Commencement address at Dartmouth College on June 12th. O’Brien, who hosted NBC’s Late Night from 1993 to 2009, currently hosts his self-titled show on TBS weeknights. O’Brien was infamously ousted from his position on NBC’s The Tonight Show in January 2010, just months after succeeding Jay Leno as host in June 2009.
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Every language can be traced back to a long-forgotten dialect spoken by our Stone Age ancestors in Africa.
From English to Mandarin – Every language in the world evolved from a prehistoric ‘mother tongue. ‘ The mother tongue was first spoken in Africa tens of thousands of years ago, a new study reveals.
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Victor Pauca’s father develops iPad app to help son ‘speak’.
Victor Pauca will have plenty of presents to unwrap on Christmas, but the 5-year-old boy has already received the best gift he’ll get this year: the ability to communicate.
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EyeHear
Designer Kaitlyn Fox has developed a microphone and mini-computer embedded device, which is clipped onto a pair of glasses to record peoples’ speech and then convert the same into text for the deaf and the hearing impaired to read. (Pics and videos)
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Believe it or not, babies as young as six months can understand dogs.
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Parents talk less to their children if the TV is on and youngsters also speak less, American researchers have found.
A study of children and babies from two-months-old to four-years-old found that for every hour the television was on, parents said between 500 and 1,000 fewer words to their children.
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