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In a recent set of studies, investigators have finally found one of the most important genes in our bodies, the one that determines our ability to formulate and understand speech. The gene, called FOXP2, can be found in all humans, but lacks in chimpanzees, other primates and big apes. It is a transcription factor, w... |
12 November 2009
04:58 GMT |
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In many European countries, adding subtitles in a foreign movie in the native tongue of their residents is a standard norm. Experts who devised this system many years ago said that this would help the masses get to know a second language, by creating associations between the words and the text. But a new investigatio... |
11 November 2009
08:37 GMT |
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Words and gesture may seem to be two distinct sets of communication tools, and someone would expect that they are processed in different parts of the brain. However, this does not seem to be the case, as indicated by a new scientific study funded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders... |
10 November 2009
14:31 GMT |
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Rihanna may be only 21 but, as far as accomplishments go, she has more under her belt than many other female stars twice her age. Her music gets constant airplay and whatever she touches instantly turns to gold. However, what’s more important, Rihanna is also a good role model for young girls and women all over... |
10 November 2009
09:02 GMT |
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In a find that could have massive implications for handling people suffering from speech disorders, experts at the Yale-affiliated Haskins Laboratories have determined that learning how to speak also changes the way sounds are heard in the human brain. The discovery, which is detailed in this week's issue of the... |
3 November 2009
15:01 GMT |
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A collaboration between German and British experts, from the Leipzig Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, and the Wellcome Trust Center for Neuroimaging, respectively, has recently yielded a new class of algorithms that their creators hope will make computers able to recognize spoken language ... |
15 August 2009
04:56 GMT |
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Nuance Communications, Inc. announced on Monday that it had joined hands with the Symbian Foundation, a move that would offer it the possibility to work on the development of innovative mobile solutions so as to simplify and enhance the handset based on the Symbian platform. The OS, as many of you might already know,... |
21 July 2009
09:44 GMT |
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In a new groundbreaking study, experts have managed to demonstrate that cotton-top tamarins are able to identify the words in which syllables are placed in an incorrect order. The find holds a great significance for studying the origin of language, and especially for its non-verbal components, which the scientists sa... |
8 July 2009
08:31 GMT |
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A few hours ago, the world paid a last tribute to the man who has often been referred to as the King of Pop, the ultimate entertainer and the black artist whose passing has left a void no one will ever be able to fill. The two-hour ceremony at Staples Center in Los Angeles was a celebration of the life of Michael Jac... |
8 July 2009
02:34 GMT |
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Back in 1969, when the Apollo mission landed on the Moon, Neil Armstrong uttered his famous phrase “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind” upon setting foot on the lunar soil for the first time. Now, a linguist shows that the astronaut also meant to place an “a” before the word &l... |
4 June 2009
10:01 GMT |
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MacSpeech, Inc. has announced MacSpeech Dictate 1.5, the first upgrade to its premier speech-recognition solution for the Mac. The update, immediately available for download, now introduces a Vocabulary Editor, new English profile options, and an enhanced accuracy, to highlight a few new features. Using the new Voca... |
15 May 2009
08:42 GMT |
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People familiar with the latest Mac OS X 10.5.7 test build (9J34) say the next maintenance and security update to Leopard should arrive with updated speech support. While there are no specific details at this time, OS X 10.5.7 is said to pack enhancements to the speech dictionary, probably increasing emphasis on synt... |
24 March 2009
03:56 GMT |
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President Barack Obama's Inauguration ceremony was thus far the largest news event broadcast via video feeds by all the top sites on the web, and was watched by tens of millions worldwide. A partial reason for this was the fact that the midday ceremony couldn't be watched by many people, because they were a... |
21 January 2009
08:46 GMT |
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Google is providing iPhone owners with means to search everything they could possibly want through speech. An update to the free Google Mobile App will enable it to sense when the user wants to do a voice search, through the built in accelerometer, according to an YouTube demonstration of the app. A NY Times report ... |
17 November 2008
10:03 GMT |
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The last Neanderthals may have gone extinct in their last stronghold in Gibraltar 24,000 years ago, but we still can hear their voice. At least, a computer made a variant of it, in an attempt of a team led by Robert McCarthy, an anthropologist at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, as signaled by New Scientist... |
17 April 2008
05:19 GMT |
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The complex human speech is one of the most important traits that differentiate us from animals. It relies on our large brains, however it is not a question of size but of brain wiring, as showed by a new research published in "Nature Neuroscience." Since the 19th century, the Broca nucleus in the frontal cortex and ... |
27 March 2008
06:14 GMT |
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Until a machine will read your thoughts, a first step has been made: New Scientists signals the development of a neckband that decodes your nerve signals into speech. For the first time, you could make a phone call without opening your mouth.A trained individual can transmit motor messages to its vocal cords without ... |
19 March 2008
06:12 GMT |
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Let's face it: men come from Mars, women from Venus. Women hear from a conversation just words like shopping, money, jewel, gold, diamond, spending, and so on. Men hear just sex, football, boobs, a**, beer, chicks and so on. A new study published in "Neuropsychologia" comes with another element to the overwhelmi... |
14 March 2008
05:32 GMT |
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The human brain has a nucleus that differentiates human speech from background sounds. A new research published in "Nature Neuroscience" shows that monkeys too have such a nucleus that reacts selectively to the voices of other monkeys. This is a step further on understanding the neural basis of voice recognition and ... |
13 February 2008
04:53 GMT |
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Speech is perhaps what makes us different from apes. They can have some degree of logics, but this is boosted to astronomic values in humans by speech. Speech is made of two sets of symbols: words and grammar, rules through which words are combined in phrases expressing precise links between objects and events. "John... |
12 January 2008
07:53 GMT |
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The complex human speech is perhaps the main trait that puts us apart from apes. For example, chimps have the same mental addition ability like humans, while speech allows humans counting and advanced calculations.Human speech have been linked to two brain nuclei controlling the language (articulating control, data s... |
20 December 2007
05:35 GMT |
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The left cortical hemisphere realizes this through an acoustical technique named "simultaneous masking", which enables the brain to distinguish one sound even when it comes together with competing sounds and noises. Also named frequency masking, the process often takes place when two or more sounds with a similar fre... |
19 November 2007
04:05 GMT |
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In movies, machines and people can read your mind. Till we achieve that, a first step could be done, which would be quite a breakthrough: translate the thoughts of a paralyzed person into speech in a pioneering experiment. Jonathan Brumberg from Boston University revealed the results of his team at the meeting of the... |
16 November 2007
05:45 GMT |
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Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, John McCain and yesterday Barack Obama are the four most important candidates that have given speeches at Google. All with good chances, all crowd pleasers and charismatic figures (they must be, or else they wouldn't have been running for president), all with something to prove, al... |
15 November 2007
04:52 GMT |
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The past few days have boiled Google down to the point where an official statement was inevitable on the freedom of speech problem it's been confronting. It looks more like a civic lesson, punctuated with reasons why Google did this and that throughout its almost 9 years of existence. But civic lessons are not b... |
15 November 2007
03:56 GMT |
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1.The speech skill is a wonder. To produce a phrase, about 100 muscles of the chest, neck, jaw, tongue and lips must collaborate. Each muscle is a bundle made of hundreds or thousands of fibers. For the coordination of these muscles much more neurons than necessary are required for contracting the muscles from an ath... |
9 November 2007
14:56 GMT |
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When you call someone "a Neanderthal", you refer to that person as extremely rude and wild. But the more we investigate our extinct cousin, the more we find out about his complexity. A new genetic research even says they could have spoken in the same manner modern humans do. Since the first discovery of a Neanderthal... |
19 October 2007
03:11 GMT |
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Those bat species that emit ultrasounds to spot prey and avoid obstacles present a high variation in the FOXP2 gene, pointing that mutations in the gene boosted the evolution of the bat sonar. The protein encoded by FOXP2 appears to control coordination between mouth muscles and speech. In 2001, it was connected to s... |
26 September 2007
02:48 GMT |
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The first human slang could have been a rudimentary system of visual, tactile and auditive calls, resembling animal communication. But when we acquired the ability of representing objects through symbols and communicate to another individual our own mental creations, we turned ourselves different from the rest of the... |
4 August 2007
06:48 GMT |
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The complex human speech is one of our traits that definitely separates us not only from other animals, but also perhaps from our extinct relatives. It is believed that Homo sapiens appeared about 150,000 years ago, but a sudden boost in its evolution was given by the emergence of the language some 50,000 years ago. ... |
3 August 2007
14:11 GMT |
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Ever tried convincing your wife/girlfriend that you're still at the office, when you're out for a drink with your buddies? I'm sure you did, so I'll go on. Ever wondered what gives you away? Definitely you talking very loud. Here's what I suggest you should buy before your next guys-night-out... |
9 May 2007
11:31 GMT |
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