A new study suggests that speech involves the use of both sides of the brain, overturning a widely-held belief that only one side of the brain is responsible for the task. Researchers at New York ...

The perception of our own voice depends on sound transmission through air (air-conducted) as well as through the skull bone (bone-conducted or BC). The transmission properties of BC speech are, ...

Understanding the functional anatomy of speech perception has been a topic of intense investigation for more than 130 years, and interest in the basis of speech and language dates back to the earliest ...

When we hear a sentence, or a line of poetry, our brains automatically transform the stream of sound into a sequence of syllables. But scientists haven't been sure exactly how the brain does this. Now ...

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Speech synthesis is a very convenient means of conveying spoken information without the need for human labor. The most commonly used method of speech synthesis in program production compiles speech ...