AI Humanoid Robot ‘Sophia’ Delivers Speech During Private University’s Graduation Ceremony

Medicine & Technology May 19, 2024

University officials invited Sophia the robot to give a graduation speech during their commencement exercises. Read to learn more.

Foreign Accent Syndrome: Is It Possible to Have a Sudden Change to Speech?

Dec 19, 2023

Cases have been reported worldwide regarding native speakers of a language who suddenly change their speech. Read the article to find out more.

Analysis of Dogs' Brain Reveals Higher Sensitivity to Women Than Men, Giving Better Understanding to How Their Brains React to Words

Aug 24, 2023

Domestication could have caused dogs to become more sensitive to dog-directed or infant-directed speech. Read to learn more.

Changing Accents: How and Why Do People Lose or Pick up the Way They Speak Upon Emigrating?

Apr 07, 2023

Accents serve as an identity of where someone belongs or something that separates communities. But why do accents change? Learn the answer in this article.

Cerebral Cortex Found Responsible for Speech to Ensure People Say The Right Words

Feb 04, 2022

A new study recently focused on the half-dozen sub-regions of the surface layer of the brain, also called the cerebral cortex, as they are known to regulate how people are moving their mouth, lips, and tongue to form words and to play a role in processing what they hear they, themselves are saying.

New Study Suggests That Language Started Forming 30 to 40 Million Years Ago

Oct 22, 2020

Language is illustrated as the passing of thoughts and ideas through intelligible sounds. Although its evolutionary origins were previously unknown, a new study suggests it started at least 30 to 40 million years ago - during the time of the common ancestor of men, monkeys, and apes.

[VIDEO] Human Speech Evolved From Lip-Smacking in Chimps, Study Suggests

Jun 17, 2020

Have you ever noticed chimps doing lip-smacking? Researchers say this mannerism seen in apes has some implications on the evolution of human speech. Click the link above to learn more.

A Speech-to-Touch Sensory Substitution Device Improves Hearing in Hearing-Impaired without Training

Jun 03, 2019

The study investigators hypothesized that they would be able to improve speech understanding under challenging conditions by exploiting the ability of the brain to integrate information coming simultaneously from different senses

Research Shows Voice Disorders Coherently Affect Listeners

May 15, 2019

The results of the study reveal that overall, speakers with vice disorders demonstrated a tenfold increase in the number of speech intelligibility errors compared to speakers with healthy voices

Tolerating A Baby Playing A Smartphone Or An iPad Could Lead To Speech Delays

May 09, 2017

Latest studies revealed that tolerating a baby to play a smartphone or an iPad could lead to speech delays.

Scientists Locate Speech Forming Part of the Brain

May 20, 2015

Researchers have discovered the part of the brain that is sensitive to timing and plays an important role in human language.

New Research Isolates Speech Center in the Human Brain

May 19, 2015

In our quest to understand the complex inner workings of the human brain, researchers at New York University have brought us one step closer. They have pinpointed a region of the brain exclusively devoted to processing speech, which not only provides a better understanding of the cerebral landscape, but settles a long-standing dispute concerning the brain's perception of sound.