News tagged with spoken utterances

Dialect Detectives

(PhysOrg.com) -- Technology under development by Pedro Torres-Carrasquillo and his colleagues at Lincoln Laboratory may lead to a dialect identification system that compensates for a translator's inexperience ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Apr 16, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1




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The art of telling it like it isn't

There are certain things in life we'd rather not conjure up too vividly, and for this we have at our disposal a range of linguistic deodorisers, smokescreens and fig leaves. These are euphemisms. They are ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 28, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Inside Hitler's mind

A secret analysis of Adolf Hitler’s mental state which was drawn up by British Intelligence in April 1942 has been uncovered by a researcher, having apparently lain unread since the war.

Other Sciences / Other

created May 04, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Disney sketches sequel to 'Epic Mickey' video game

(AP) -- Warren Spector realizes that he made a mistake with "Epic Mickey," his 2010 action-adventure game starring the world's most famous mouse

Technology / Software

created Mar 21, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers develop 'SpeechJammer' gun that can quash human utterances

(PhysOrg.com) -- Imagine sitting around a conference table with several of your colleagues as you hold an important meeting. Now imagine your boss pulling out what looks like a radar gun for catching speeding ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 02, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (32) | comments 37 | with audio podcast report

WikiLeaks says published all US cables on Internet

Anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks said on Friday it had published its full cache of more than 250,000 US diplomatic cables, which could be accessed through an Internet link without a password.

Technology / Internet

created Sep 02, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

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

The sound and the query: Why do questions take the form they do?

In linguistic terms, a question is largely the re-ordering of a statement. Shuffle the words around, make a couple of other changes, and "John rode a horse" becomes "What did John ride?"

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 26, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Music and speech based on human biology (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- A pair of studies by Duke University neuroscientists shows powerful new evidence of a deep biological link between human music and speech.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 0

Foreign subtitles improve speech perception

Do you speak English as a second language well, but still have trouble understanding movies with unfamiliar accents, such as Brad Pitt's southern accent in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds? In a new study, published ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 2

It's like software understands, um, language

(PhysOrg.com) -- EU researchers have taken speech recognition to a whole new level by creating software that can understand spontaneous language. It will, like, make human-machine interaction, um, work a lot ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jan 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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