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Langtech 2002: Mature Speech And Language Technology Sector To Make Advances Toward `Natural` Human Interfaces
Many speech and language technologies, particularly voice and multilinguality based, have reached a level of European market maturity according to industry experts attending the Langtech 2002 forum held in Berlin on September 26 & 27, 2002. The conference, which featured over 330 industry participants from 30 nations, also revealed that a... view more... (2002-10-09)
Tickling Children's Funny Bones - UU Study
Children say the funniest things, but what makes them laugh? Do German and Israeli kids share the same sense of humour - or is the Simpsons the universal language of laughter? view more (2005-04-18)
Preschool children display innate skill with numbers, addition
Psychologists at Harvard University have found that five-year-olds are able to grasp numeric abstractions and arithmetic concepts even without the formal education or language to express this knowledge in words. view more (2005-09-20)
World Wide Web Consortium Publishes Speech Recognition Grammar Specification
Open Invitation to Test Critical Component of W3C Speech Interface Framework http://www.w3.org/ -- 26 June 2002 -- The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has issued the Speech Recognition Grammar Specification as a W3C Candidate Recommendation. Speech grammars allow voice-based application authors to create rules describing what users are expected to... view more... (2002-06-26)
Language use decreases in young children and caregivers when television is on, study finds
In a new study, young children and their adult caregivers uttered fewer vocalizations, used fewer words and engaged in fewer conversations when in the presence of audible television. view more (2009-06-02)
Invitation to the Press - Cockney Cadence And The Rhythm Of Everyday Speech Inspires Audio Artist
FINE art student Jane Goetzee's audio artwork is inspired by the natural lilt of everyday speech - including the dialogue of the characters in the TV soap EastEnders. Former radiographer Jane, a final year student with Staffordshire University, is interested in the role of art and language, in particular the cadence of language such as the Cockney... view more... (2002-06-11)
World Wide Web Consortium Issues Exclusive Canonical XML as a W3C Recommendation
New XML specification furthers portable digital signatures Also available in French. http://www.w3.org/ -- 18 July 2001 -- The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) today announced the release of Exclusive XML Canonicalization as a W3C Recommendation. This specification augments the previous Canonical XML Recommendation to better enable a portion of an... view more... (2002-07-18)
Eavesdropping comes naturally to young song sparrows
Long before the National Security Agency began eavesdropping on the phone calls of Americans, young song sparrows were listening to and learning the tunes sung by their neighbors. view more (2007-05-31)
New XML Edition Of Text Encoding Guidelines Published
The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Consortium (www.tei-c.org) announces publication of a new, updated version of their Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange, known as P4. The Consortium, now in its second year, is an International non-profit corporation set up to maintain and develop the TEI system, which has become the de facto... view more... (2002-06-13)
Pioneering Video Link Signals Way For Future Communications Between Deaf Community And Health Providers
The Leicester Centre for Deaf People, supported by funding from Leicestershire Health Authority, has launched a groundbreaking video communications initiative to provide a round-the-clock remote sign language interpretation service which will drastically improve communication between healthcare providers and the deaf community. Part of the... view more... (2002-01-16)
MindWeavers announces launch of first Phonomena computer game
MindWeavers Ltd today launched "Phonomena", its computer game language development software to 20,000 delegates at the Special Needs and Education London Shows (25 - 27 September, Olympia, London). The launch follows trial results, featured in the New Scientist (30 August 2003), which proved that Phonomena can dramatically improve... view more... (2003-09-23)
Classifying 'clicks'
A new way to classify sounds in some human languages may solve a problem that has plagued linguists for nearly 100 years--how to accurately describe click sounds distinct to certain African languages. view more (2009-07-16)
Shared ancestor to humans, present-day non-human primates may be linchpin in evolution of language
When contemplating the coos and screams of a fellow member of its species, the rhesus monkey, or macaque, makes use of brain regions that correspond to the two principal language centers in the human brain. view more (2006-07-24)
Un-total Recall: Amnesics Remember Grammar, but Not Meaning of New Sentences
Syntactic persistence is the tendency for speakers to produce sentences using similar grammatical patterns and rules of language as those they have used before. view more (2008-09-24)
Learning a second language -- Is it all in your head?
Think you haven't got the aptitude to learn a foreign language? New research led by Northwestern University neuroscientists suggests that the problem, quite literally, could be in your head. view more (2007-07-26)
Indigenous children don't need number words to 'count', says new study
The study, by researchers from the University of Melbourne and University College London, is set to be published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA. view more (2008-08-19)
The roots of grammar: New study shows children innately prepared to learn language
To learn a language, a child must learn a set of all-purpose rules, such as "a sentence can be formed by combining a subject, a verb and an object" that can be used in an infinite number of ways. view more (2007-06-06)
Practice builds brain connections for babies learning language, how to speak
Experience, as the old saying goes, is the best teacher. And experience seems to play an important early role in how infants learn to understand and produce language. view more (2006-07-11)
Bird brains suggest how vocal learning evolved
Though they perch far apart on the avian family tree, birds with the ability to learn songs use similar brain structures to sing their tunes. Neurobiologists at Duke University Medical Center now have an explanation for this puzzling likeness. view more (2008-03-12)
Iron deficiency in womb may delay brain maturation in preemies
Iron plays a large role in brain development in the womb, and new University of Rochester Medical Center research shows an iron deficiency may delay the development of auditory nervous system in preemies. view more (2009-05-05)
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