Voices: I’m a speech and language therapist: If your child starts school unable to talk, it may not be what you think

If your child starts school unable to talk, it may not be what you think - COMMENT: A post-pandemic over-reliance on screens ...
Purdue University

Purdue researcher among first to explore children’s language abilities in relation to speech sound disorder

Roughly 8-9% of young children have a speech sound disorder, which results in difficulties producing speech sounds correctly and often has no known cause, according to the National Institute on ...
The Debrief

Scientists Discover a Hidden Universal Rhythm in All Human Speech

Researchers point to “intonation units,” or IUs, as the hidden scaffolding of human conversation. These are stretches of ...
Science Daily

Common phrases, not fancy words, make you sound more fluent in a foreign language

Fluency in a foreign language is often thought to be about speaking quickly and using advanced vocabulary. However, researchers reveal that speakers who use common, everyday expressions sound more ...
Hackaday

Text-to-Speech Model Can Do Music, Background Noises, And Sound Effects

Bark is a universal text-to-audio model that can not only create realistic speech, it can incorporate music, background noises, and sound effects. It can even include non-speech sounds like laughter, ...
Ars Technica

Microsoft’s new AI can simulate anyone’s voice with 3 seconds of audio

On Thursday, Microsoft researchers announced a new text-to-speech AI model called VALL-E that can closely simulate a person's voice when given a three-second audio sample. Once it learns a specific ...