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Released: 15-Nov-2024 3:40 PM EST
Speech Accessibility Project partners with The Matthew Foundation, Massachusetts Down Syndrome Congress
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

The Speech Accessibility Project has two new partners — The Matthew Foundation and the Massachusetts Down Syndrome Congress — as it continues to recruit adults with Down syndrome who live in the United States and Canada. The project also allows residents of Puerto Rico to participate.

Released: 14-Nov-2024 1:05 PM EST
New Study Sheds Light on Language Development in Children with Hearing Loss
University of Miami

University of Miami researchers find a link between early vocabulary composition and later language development in children with cochlear implants.

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Newswise: Ouch! Commonalties Found in Pain Vocalizations and Interjections Across Cultures
8-Nov-2024 9:05 AM EST
Ouch! Commonalties Found in Pain Vocalizations and Interjections Across Cultures
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

In the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, an interdisciplinary team explored possible regularities in vocal emotional expressions by comparing expressive interjections, such as “wow,” to nonlinguistic vocalizations, such as screams and cries, from across the globe. The researchers analyzed vowels in interjections from 131 languages, comparing them with nearly 500 vowels from vocalizations produced in joyful, painful, or disgusting contexts. Each of the three emotions yielded consistent and distinct vowel signatures across cultures in vocalizations.

Newswise: AI Needs to Work on Its Conversation Game
Released: 12-Nov-2024 5:40 AM EST
AI Needs to Work on Its Conversation Game
Tufts University

Linguistics and computer science researchers at Tufts University have discovered some of the root causes of the inability of AI to engage in human-like conversation

Newswise: ETRI, Successful Development of an AI-Based Dementia Prediction Technology
Released: 4-Nov-2024 9:00 AM EST
ETRI, Successful Development of an AI-Based Dementia Prediction Technology
National Research Council of Science and Technology

Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) is conducting research on the development of an AI technology that can evaluate and predict brain function degeneration and brain-related diseases such as mild cognitive impairment, dementia, etc., by analyzing the speech utterances of the elderly that can be obtained through their daily conversations.

Newswise: Chula Launches “Phipitbharat 2024” Teacher Training Program and MOU Signing Ceremony to Promote Hindi Language Instruction
Released: 30-Oct-2024 8:55 AM EDT
Chula Launches “Phipitbharat 2024” Teacher Training Program and MOU Signing Ceremony to Promote Hindi Language Instruction
Chulalongkorn University

Chulalongkorn University, through its Institute of Asian Studies, Indian Studies Center, and the Faculty of Arts, hosted the “Phipitbharat 2024” teacher training program to enhance knowledge of both traditional and modern India.

Released: 28-Oct-2024 10:15 AM EDT
What is a Wada Test? CHLA’s Dr. Sucheta Joshi Tells Parents What to Expect
Children's Hospital Los Angeles

For children who are undergoing evaluation for surgery to treat epilepsy at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, the Wada test, also known as the intracarotid amobarbital procedure, can be an important step in the process. During this test, doctors put certain areas of the brain to sleep to help pinpoint which areas correspond to the patient’s language and memory.

Released: 25-Oct-2024 6:05 AM EDT
Complex Sound Patterns Are Recognized by Newborn Brains
University of Vienna

A team of researchers, including psycholinguist Jutta Mueller from the University of Vienna, has discovered that newborns are capable of learning complex sound sequences that follow language-like rules. This groundbreaking study provides long-sought evidence that the ability to perceive dependencies between non-adjacent acoustic signals is innate.

Released: 18-Oct-2024 10:55 AM EDT
Speech Accessibility Project expands to Canada
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

The Speech Accessibility Project is now recruiting Canadian adults with Parkinson’s disease, cerebral palsy, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Down syndrome and those who have had a stroke.

Released: 10-Oct-2024 12:00 PM EDT
MichaëL Boissonneault: Predicting Social Dynamics
Universite de Montreal

An expert on aging, disappearing languages and migration – and a self-taught polyglot, too – the academic has joined UdeM’s Department of Demography as a professor.

Newswise: EMERGE Study to Explore Language Trajectories of Low-Income, Ethnically Diverse Children with Autism
Released: 3-Oct-2024 3:05 PM EDT
EMERGE Study to Explore Language Trajectories of Low-Income, Ethnically Diverse Children with Autism
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Health Sciences

Researchers at UCLA Health and the University of North Carolina Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute (FPG) will co-lead a unique project to assess behavioral and neurological markers of language development in low-income children within their family settings, gathering valuable information that could lead to earlier, more targeted interventions for a population that has been largely underrepresented in autism research.

Newswise: Automatic Speech Recognition Learned to Understand People with Parkinson’s Disease — by Listening to Them
Released: 27-Sep-2024 11:05 AM EDT
Automatic Speech Recognition Learned to Understand People with Parkinson’s Disease — by Listening to Them
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Listening to people with Parkinson’s disease made an automatic speech recognizer 30% more accurate, according to initial findings from the Speech Accessibility Project. Speech recordings used in the study are freely available to organizations looking to improve their voice recognition devices.

     
Newswise: ‘Axial Load Bearings’, ‘Ball Screws’, and ‘Tensile Strength’: 
How VR can help learn the language of engineering
Released: 12-Sep-2024 4:30 PM EDT
‘Axial Load Bearings’, ‘Ball Screws’, and ‘Tensile Strength’: How VR can help learn the language of engineering
University of South Australia

Using immersive virtual reality (i-VR) – a technology where, through use of a headset and controllers, a user can navigate myriad virtual environments – researchers at the University of South Australia have created engineering-specific scenarios where students can practice their engineering skills, using language that is specific to the job.

Newswise: Virginia Representative, Jennifer Wexton, Finds Her Voice One Year After Being Diagnosed with Rare Brain Disorder Affecting Her Speech
Released: 21-Aug-2024 12:05 PM EDT
Virginia Representative, Jennifer Wexton, Finds Her Voice One Year After Being Diagnosed with Rare Brain Disorder Affecting Her Speech
Hackensack Meridian Health

Public speaking may be one of the most crucial skills for politicians, playing a vital role in their ability to connect with voters and colleagues. But after being diagnosed with a rare brain disorder a year ago, Virginia Representative, Jennifer Wexton, literally lost her voice.

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Released: 14-Aug-2024 4:05 PM EDT
New brain-computer interface allows man with ALS to ‘speak’ again
UC Davis Health

A brain-computer interface developed by UC Davis Health accurately translates brain signals into speech. The device implanted in the brain of a man with ALS is the most accurate system of its kind.

Newswise: Florida State Faculty to Share Insights for 2024 Back-To-School Virtual Media Briefing
Released: 1-Aug-2024 12:05 PM EDT
Florida State Faculty to Share Insights for 2024 Back-To-School Virtual Media Briefing
Florida State University

For media seeking commentary for back-to-school stories and other education coverage, FSU faculty will participate in a virtual media briefing Aug. 6. Faculty with expertise in literacy and language development, school psychology and counseling, autism and intellectual disability, and mathematics education will be available to answer questions.

Released: 30-Jul-2024 6:00 AM EDT
"Holiday" or "vacation": Similar language leads to more cooperation
University of Vienna

"Holiday" or "vacation", "to start" or "to begin", "my friend’s cat" or "the cat of my friend" – in our language, there are different ways of expressing the same things and concepts. But can the choice of a particular variant determine whether we prefer to cooperate with certain people rather than with others?



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