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Findings could lead to improved lip-reading training for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
Sep 10, 2009 |
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A new study by the University of East Anglia suggests computers are now better at lip-reading than humans.
Scientists reaching consensus on how brain processes speech
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 26, 2009 |
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Neuroscientists feel they are much closer to an accepted unified theory about how the brain processes speech and language, according to a scientist at Georgetown University Medical Center who first laid the ...
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Researchers produce 'neural fingerprint' of speech recognition
Nov 10, 2008 |
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Scientists from Maastricht University (Netherlands) have developed a method to look into the brain of a person and read out who has spoken to him or her and what was said. With the help of neuroimaging and data mining techniques ...
Where the brain makes sense of speech
Dec 19, 2007 |
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Researchers have identified regions of the brain where speech sounds are perceived as having abstract meaning, rather than as just a stream of sensory input. They said their identification of the regions demonstrates that ...
Researchers shed light on the brain mechanism responsible for processing of speech
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 12, 2009 |
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Researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have succeeded for the first time in devising a model that describes and identifies a basic cellular mechanism that enables networks of neurons to efficiently decode speech ...
Reduced noise allows clearer mobile phone conversations
Feb 19, 2008 |
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Dutch researcher Richard Hendriks investigated how background noises can be suppressed in order to provide better sound quality in applications such as mobile phones and hearing aids.
Researchers unlock the 'sound of learning' by linking sensory and motor systems
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 02, 2009 |
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Learning to talk also changes the way speech sounds are heard, according to a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by scientists at Haskins Laboratories, a Yale-affiliated resear ...
Can't Make it to a Meeting? Send a Computer Instead
Technology / Computer Sciences
Aug 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- If you’ve ever wished you had an assistant to attend meetings with you, take notes and produce a concise summary, then you’ll be pleased to know that UT Dallas computer scientist Yang Liu ...
Unraveling the roots of dyslexia
Mar 12, 2009 |
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By peering into the brains of people with dyslexia compared to normal readers, a study published online on March 12th in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, has shed new light on the roots of the learning disability, which ...
Psychologist identifies area of brain key to choosing words
Dec 24, 2008 |
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New research by a Rice University psychologist clearly identifies the parts of the brain involved in the process of choosing appropriate words during speech.
Zeroing in on the brain's speech 'receiver'
Jun 20, 2007 |
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A particular resonance pattern in the brain’s auditory processing region appears to be key to its ability to discriminate speech, researchers have found. They found that the inherent rhythm of neural activity called “theta ...
Speech-recognition technology is rapidly improving
Jul 23, 2009 |
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Maybe I watched too much "Star Trek" when I was younger, but I love the idea of being able to command things in my house or in my car by talking to them.
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