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It's like software understands, um, language
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jan 21, 2009 |
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(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 ...
Scholar helps classify clicks in African languages
Oct 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Linguistics scholar Amanda Miller is doing research with high-speed ultrasound technology to help her and fellow researchers successfully record and classify clicks in an endangered African ...
Conversing helps language development more than reading alone
Jun 29, 2009 |
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Adult-child conversations have a more significant impact on language development than exposing children to language through one-on-one reading alone, according to a new study in the July issue of Pediatrics, the journal of the ...
Technology helps kids learn to communicate
Feb 20, 2006 |
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Computers combining features from popular toys with innovative technology are helping improve the learning and communication skills of disabled children.
Group protests Kindle e-reader's read-aloud limits
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Apr 07, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A group representing the blind and other people with disabilities protested limitations to the new read-aloud feature on Amazon.com Inc.'s latest Kindle electronic reader Tuesday, arguing that the ...
New technology helps Parkinson's patients speak louder
Aug 25, 2009 |
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Researchers have developed a new technology that helps Parkinson's patients overcome the tendency to speak too quietly by playing a recording of ambient sound, which resembles the noisy chatter of a restaurant ...
Dialect Detectives
Technology / Computer Sciences
Apr 16, 2009 |
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(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 ...
Hearing the words beneath the noise
Aug 05, 2009 |
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Hearing aids and cochlear implants act as tiny amplifiers so the deaf and hard-of-hearing can make sense of voices and music. Unfortunately, these devices also amplify background sound, so they're less effective in a noisy ...
Google adds automatic captions to YouTube
Nov 19, 2009 |
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Google, in a significant development for the deaf, announced on Thursday it was adding automatic caption capability to videos on YouTube.
How noise and nervous system get in way of reading skills
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 13, 2009 |
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A child's brain has to work overtime in a noisy classroom to do its typical but very important job of distinguishing sounds whose subtle differences are key to success with language and reading.
Two Retinal Imaging Display Devices at Prototype Stage
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Oct 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NEC and Brother are both developing wearable prototype devices that use Retinal Imaging Display (RID) technology to project images directly on the wearer's retina. NEC's gadget is designed ...
Machines might talk with humans by putting themselves in our shoes
Technology / Computer Sciences
Sep 10, 2007 |
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While robots can do some remarkable things, they don't yet possess the gift of gab. Since the 1970s, researchers have been trying to develop a speech-based human-machine interface, but improvements are gradual, ...
New algorithms for computerized, large-scale surveillance
Dec 02, 2009 |
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A recent AFOSR-funded technology should enable the Air Force to achieve advances in object and target detection technology by using sophisticated algebraic theories called groups, rings and fields.
Company unveils improved voice processors
Mar 13, 2006 |
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AudioCodes announced Friday an upgrade to its VoIPerfect software that will provide better voice quality for wireless and broadband access.
Congress joins Twitter craze
Apr 13, 2009 |
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This is what you get when politicians keep their comments to 140 characters or less: "We need to cut spending! Holy Cow! A novel idea in Washington."
