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Phonetics and speech science explore how humans produce, transmit and perceive spoken language. Articulatory phonetics examines the gestures of lips, tongue, jaw and larynx that shape acoustic signals ...

This article was originally published by Knowable Magazine. Except for various cartoon characters, the Geico Gecko and Mr. Ed, animals can’t speak. Yet they have a lot to say to scientists trying to ...

Most experimental brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) that have been used for synthesizing human speech have been implanted in the areas of the brain that translate the intention to speak into the muscle ...

Researchers created and used complex neural networks to recreate speech from brain recordings, and then used that recreation to analyze the processes that drive human speech. Speech production is a ...

Microphones for use in noisy places, e.g., military aircraft, have always been a headache for acoustic engineers. If placed close in front of the mouth, they pick up a great deal of “ambient” noise, ...

Bell Telephone Co. paid a yo-year-old debt last week. Alexander Graham Bell was really studying the problems of the deaf when he happened to invent the telephone. Now the telephone company, grown ...

The Bachelor of Arts degree in Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences (SLHS) provides a firm foundation for future graduate study in the sciences of human communication, audiology, speech-language ...

A group of scientists have developed a way to translate brain waves directly into human speech, potentially giving patients who are unable to use their voices another way to communicate. While the ...