In most cases, a flat, emotionless tone is a career killer; when Arnold Schwarzenegger uses it to deliver “I’ll be back” in “The Terminator,” it’s a genius character choice. Top-level actors ...

This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece discusses advances in neuroscience. In 1999, I defined regenerative medicine as the collection of ...

Children’s speech presents unique challenges for ASR systems. Their smaller, growing vocal tracts lead to greater acoustic variability. On top of that, kids are still learning how to speak, making ...

The way we speak in everyday conversation may hold important clues about brain health, according to new research from Baycrest, the University of Toronto and York University. The study found that ...

The Speech Accessibility Project is a research initiative to make voice recognition technology more useful for people with a range of diverse speech patterns and disabilities. The project is housed ...

WASHINGTON – Researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center, in collaboration with George Washington University, leveraged their understanding of auditory speech processing in the brain to enable ...

The presence of speech patterns in people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), commonly called autism, is linked to problems in social communication and social interaction that define ASD. These ...

Children who face challenges with speech or language often struggle not just in school, but also in everyday situations. Speech therapy provides targeted support that helps kids improve their ...

One group commonly misunderstood by voice technology are individuals who speak African American English, or AAE. Researchers designed an experiment to test how AAE speakers adapt their speech when ...

Listening to people with Parkinson's disease made an automatic speech recognizer 30-percent more accurate, according to a new study. As Mark Hasegawa-Johnson combed through data from his latest ...