Researchers at CSIRO and University of Queensland have developed an app called Harlie that is designed to chat with humans.
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Parents shouldn’t be concerned if their bilingual child is slower to develop their vocabularly, because in most cases this is just a temporary lag.
Much has been written about vocal fry in recent years, with the focus on what it is, where it comes from and what it means … at least when it comes to females who fry. What’s really going on here?
Robert Mugabe is no novice when it comes to reading wrong speeches. But he is in good company.
What can a bunch of people grunting in a lab teach us about our capacity to create language systems? A lot about the gesture- or vocalization-based origins of language.
Scientists have identified the brain region that makes it possible for parrots to speak.
Abu Hamza has been sentenced to life in a US prison, after being found guilty of 11 charges of terrorism and kidnapping. The ruling was handed down as events unfolded in France, once again putting his…
In a playful rhetorical flourish at the Sydney Town Hall on Wednesday, Indigenous leader Noel Pearson monumentalised Gough Whitlam’s prime ministerial legacy, Monty Python-style: What did the Romans ever…
The recent torrent of complaints about the “inaudible dialogue” in the BBC’s adaptation of Daphne de Maurier’s Jamaica Inn have prompted a debate about actors’ speech. The cause of the problem was variously…
Adults who took music lessons as children but haven’t played in decades have a faster brain response to speech sound than…
We live in a society that is fascinated by the brain – how it works, how it differs across individuals or changes over our lifetimes and how it makes us different to other species. And over the years…
Three to four-month-old human infants respond to primate calls in the same way as to human language. Research from the US…
The voice is an important tool which we use to communicate and express ourselves. But our voices convey so much more than the words we say. Just a few words can reveal clues about someone’s gender, age…
In the past few days, a great deal of media attention has been paid to Leanne Rowe, a Tasmanian woman who has lived eight years with a French accent she acquired after a car accident. This phenomenon is…
Online speech therapy programs might be the answer to overcoming a stutter. Researchers at the University of Sydney have…
The vocal patterns of gelada monkeys have been found to bear similarities to human speech. The lip-smacking vocalising of…
For the 1% of adults worldwide who stutter, the everyday task of picking up a phone, asking for directions, or ordering food in a restaurant can be incredibly difficult. Stuttering is even more common…
A study has found that improvement in patients diagnosed with depression and undergoing treatment can be monitored over the…
The throat and facial movements that allow our vocal cords to create words could be rooted in the well-meaning expressions…
The monologues in our minds could one day be converted into language, according to researchers who have succeeded in decoding electrical activity in the area of the brain that recognises sounds. The development…
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