Speech is the vocalized form of human communication. It is based upon the syntactic combination of lexicals and names that are drawn from very large (usually about 10,000 different words) vocabularies. Each spoken word is created out of the phonetic combination of a limited set of vowel and consonant speech sound units.
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Nicolas Maduro tries to revive failed state-issued cryptocurrency Petro — AGAIN
Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela's President, won't wind up his efforts to get his struggling state-issued cryptocurrency 'El Petro' ...
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From sexting to politics: How emoji evolved this decade
To make the process of adding emoji to our phones more democratic, Emoji Voter allows people to vote for which emoji should ...
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[Best of 2019] Orangutans can play the kazoo – here’s what this tells us about speech evolution
A kazoo might seem a world away from the spoken word. But our ability to produce its buzzing, Donald Duck-like sound at will ...
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YouTube now bans 'veiled threats' against content creators
It's that time of year for looking back and seeing what happened in 2019. And given that YouTube was raked over the coals ...
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CHEAP: Si! Ja! Da! Here's 95% off a lifetime membership to language-learning app Mondly
We all want to learn another language, right? Well, this lifetime membership to the language learning app Mondly could be ...
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Google’s Parrotron AI helps people with speech impediments talk freely
Google's AI division has developed new speech-to-text software for people with verbal impairments which reduces word error ...
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Babbel's update encourages users to chart their own language course
Babbel, the popular language-learning app, is getting a makeover. Updated language lessons now put the spotlight on bite-sized ...
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Microsoft Edge can now read aloud websites with human-like voices
Microsoft's Edge browser has a neat feature you might not have been aware of: it can read websites out loud for you. Handy ...
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YouTube is failing the LGBTQ community by allowing Steven Crowder’s homophobic slurs
Vox host Carlos Maza tweeted a thread exposing the times where Steven Crowder made homophobic and racist comments — the ...
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Report: Female-sounding voice assistants fuel gender bias
AI-powered voice assistants from Google, Amazon, Apple, and others could be perpetuating harmful gender biases, according ...
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Emotionally intelligent AI will respond to how you feel
Artificial intelligence offers us an opportunity to amplify service and the integration of technology in everyday lives many ...
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Face-to-face interactions shouldn't be replaced by digital communication
What with Facetime, Skype, Whatsapp and Snapchat, for many people, face-to-face conversation is used less and less often. These ...
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AI can be trusted to take our 911 calls
Your first reaction is probably no, but you should reconsider, and here’s why. 911 call centers are overwhelmed and have ...
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Facebook's global content moderation fails to account for regional sensibilities
Over the past year, Facebook’s biggest challenge has been moderating billions of posts every day in more than a hundred ...
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IBM teaches AI to debate humans by crowdsourcing arguments
IBM's AI wants to take on all-comers in debates on every topic. But, first, its going to crowdsource its arguments from humans ...
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Don’t overestimate AI’s understanding of human language
This article is part of Demystifying AI, a series of posts that (try to) disambiguate the jargon and myths surrounding AI. It’s ...
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How you can teach AI to speak Welsh (and other minority languages)
Pioneering smart home technologies and voice assistants don’t, as a rule, speak Welsh – although the Welsh government ...
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5 lovely predictions on how Alexa will change our behavior
Happy birthday Alexa! Four years after her birth as a new kind of house servant, let’s blow out the candles, take a ...
