These shortcomings reduce the utility and generalizability of existing findings. Objective: To address these gaps, we investigated whether interpretable linguistic features can reliably identify AD ...

This study presents a valuable advance in reconstructing naturalistic speech from intracranial ECoG data using a dual-pathway model. The evidence supporting the claims of the authors is solid, ...

The neural data acquisition and acoustic-linguistic dual-pathway framework for neural-driven natural speech re-synthesis. (A) The neural data acquisition. We collected ECoG data from 9 monolingual ...

Language is a remarkable human capacity. No group of people has been found that lacks language and no other species has been found to communicate in a similar way. To elucidate what it is that ...

In a re-evaluation of Hockett's foundational features that have long dominated linguistic theory—concepts like "arbitrariness," "duality of patterning," and "displacement"—an international team of ...

Greek artist Nikos Floros created a breathtaking, three-meter tall sculpture of gold and bronze from Maria Callas’ voice echogram. Credit: Wikimedia Commons Public Domain A monumental sculpture of ...

An anonymous bomb threat is phoned into a school. A lengthy manifesto inciting violence is posted online under a pseudonym. A series of texts is sent from a missing person’s phone, but the person ...

As a computational linguistics student, you'll typically take courses from two departments (linguistics and computer science and engineering). For example, you may study how language relates to race ...

From "yeet" to "social distancing," new words and phrases constantly emerge and evolve in American English. But how do these neologisms—newly coined terms—gain acceptance and become part of mainstream ...

The rules can get complicated in a country with French, Dutch and German as official languages. By Jenny Gross A train attendant’s use of both Dutch and French — “goeiemorgen” and “bonjour” — to greet ...

OtosakuFeatureExtractor is a Swift library that simplifies the process of converting raw audio into log-Mel spectrograms for machine learning applications. This tool streamlines audio processing, ...

The spectrogram visualization fails to render initially when loading the annotation interface. The spectrogram only appears after user interaction (scrolling or zooming). This is a race condition ...