Directly emitting words and sub-words from speech spectrogram has been shown to produce good results using end-to-end (E2E) trained models. Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) and ...

Columbus Speech and Hearing, a century-old nonprofit, is shuttering its speech department and transitioning it over to Nationwide Children's Hospital. Speech services will end Dec. 16, with the ...

Speech enhancement (SE), which reconstructs intelligible speech by removing noise or interference from noisy speech, plays an important role in many speech applications. Due to the successful ...

Summary: Researchers found that everyday speech timing — including pauses, fillers, and subtle patterns — strongly reflects executive function, a key cognitive system that supports memory and flexible ...

As political polarization intensifies, America’s colleges and universities face threats to free speech from both the left and right. Campus conservatives risk ostracization, shaming or social media ...

Spectroscopic analysis is essential in modern astronomy, as spectra encode a wealth of physical information through their characteristic features, such as absorption and emission lines. These spectral ...

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. “If we don’t have FREE SPEECH, then we just don’t have a FREE COUNTRY,” ...

Free speech advocates, lawyers and experts from around the world gathered at Vanderbilt University in Nashville for the Global Free Speech Summit. There was disagreement among some speakers over the ...

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 ...

The United States is in a speech war. Normally, human beings fight over money or land or love, but that is not what is happening today. Today, people are fighting over words. People’s lives are being ...

While out of power, the American right was unified in complaining about the left’s speech policing. Now that Republicans control the White House and Congress, free-speech rights and values are ...

U.S. President Donald Trump addressed the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday in a rambling speech that lasted nearly an hour. Trump repeatedly criticized the institution and other ...