News tagged with speech production

Smartphone foreign language apps speak to world

Smartphone applications have left many office tools and devices collecting dust. Add language translators to that growing list.

Technology / Software

created May 04, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Model to Help Patients See How to Sound Out Words

(PhysOrg.com) -- Traditionally, speech-language pathologists have relied on a patient’s sense of hearing to improve speech sounds. A team of researchers from UT Dallas is hoping to change that by creating a new high-tech ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jun 10, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Which Side Are You On? Birds Need Tutoring to Find Out

(PhysOrg.com) -- Just like us, songbirds need tutoring to learn to vocalize and sing.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 18, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Measured -- The time it takes us to find the words we need

(PhysOrg.com) -- The time it takes for our brains to search for and retrieve the word we want to say has been measured for the first time. The discovery is reported in a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Ac ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 1

Classifying 'clicks'

A new way to classify sounds in some human languages may solve a problem that has plagued linguists for nearly 100 years--how to accurately describe click sounds distinct to certain African languages.

Other Sciences / Other

created Jul 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0