Speech in Biological News

Reading the brain without poking it

... someday might be placed over the brain's speech center in patients who cannot communicate because ... disorders, he adds. The electrodes would send speech signals to a computer that would covert the ... for use over critical brain areas that control speech and memory, but the electrodes likely wear out ...

Mouse model provides clues to human language development

... found alterations which may be closely linked to speech and language development. Their analyses comprise ... scientists surmised, are closely associated with speech and language ability. However, proof on a ... step that gave humans the advantage of speech and language." Furthermore, the involvement of ...

SVOX Acquires Speech Processing Unit of Siemens AG, Expands Into Speech Recognition and Speech Dialog

... -- SVOX, the leading provider of embedded speech solutions today announced the acquisition of the ... to SVOX CEO Volker Jantzen. SVOX has acquired all speech technology-related IP of Siemens AG developed over 25 years, including the SpeechAdvance(TM) speech recognition product suite and more than 60 patent ...

Feeling your words: Hearing with your face

... important role not only in the way the sounds of speech are made, but also in the way they are heard ... in a way that would normally accompany speech production they found it affected the way the subjects heard the speech sounds. The subjects listened to words one at ...

Orangutan's spontaneous whistling opens new chapter in study of evolution of speech

... Trust of Iowa new insights into the evolution of speech and learning. In a paper published this month ... are also two important aspects of human speech and these findings open up new avenues to study certain aspects of human speech evolution in our closest relatives." Previous ...

Acoustical Meeting, Nov. 10-14, 2008 in Miami, Florida

... half of these individuals after surgery provides speech that is mechanical and non-human sounding, can be ... together to improve the sound quality of EL speech by creating an approach that can automatically ... a significant advance because listeners rate EL speech that includes pitch variation to be significantly ...

Promptu Unveils High Accuracy Voice-to-Text Dictation for Mobile Phones at CTIA

... Using the company's proprietary Client Server speech Recognition (CSSR(TM)) technology, the system converts a user's fluent, natural speech almost instantly into text. Suggested as a safer, ... limitations preventing successful continuous speech recognition on mobile devices, which has been the ...

Promptu Unveils High Accuracy Voice-to-Text Dictation for Mobile Phones at CTIA

... Using the company's proprietary Client Server speech Recognition (CSSR(TM)) technology, the system converts a user's fluent, natural speech almost instantly into text. Suggested as a safer, ... limitations preventing successful continuous speech recognition on mobile devices, which has been the ...

MED-EL's new MAESTRO

... and the thinnest, lightest externally-worn speech processor available. The MAESTRO CI system ... PULSARCI100) and patients with an option of two speech processors (OPUS 1 or OPUS 2), providing the best ... solution for each individual case. The OPUS speech Processors offer two new sound coding strategies ...

Researchers studying how singing bats communicate

... outings could lead to better treatments for human speech disorders, say researchers at Texas A&M ... hypotheses about what might be going on in speech disorders. The researchers in Smothermans lab ... This makes it easier to infer things about human speech from studying bat communication. The researchers ...

Parus Interactive Awarded Patent for Speech-Activated Remote System Management

... and other remote systems using speech commands over a standard, cellular or IP phone. ... can even phone their home system and use natural speech to tell it to record a favorite TV show. And on ... Internet feed, allowing users remote access with speech commands to make emergency adjustments. "This is ...

Early brain activity sheds new light on the neural basis of reading

... between the vision and language domains during reading, with the speech motor areas of the brain (inferior frontal gyrus) being active at the same ... phonological and semantic representations, and only then gain access to a speech code. This finding has a potentially important clinical application in ...

MIT: Using touch to help deaf people

... felt by the skin, can help overcome that obstacle by conveying nuances of speech that can't be gleaned from lip reading. Researchers in MIT's Sensory ... ago, showed that the deaf-blind subjects could successfully understand speech with this method especially if the other person spoke clearly and slowly. ...

Practice as well as sleep may help birds learn new songs

... acquiring complex skills such as video game playing and learning new speech dialects. However, the neural mechanisms involved in the nighttime ... in songbirds, which long has been known to share features with learning speech and language. Sylvan Shank, a recent Ph.D. graduate in Psychology, and ...

Brain recognizes verbal 'oh dear' wave

... It seems that our brain can correct speech errors in the same way that it controls other forms of behaviour. Niels ... it processes languages. Such new insights into the mechanisms that affect speech can help to improve therapy methods for people with language impairments. ...

Hearing changes how we perceive gender

... frequencies as most useful and entertaining auditory information, such as speech and music, is carried by how sound frequencies change over time, ... said. Absolute frequencies do not matter much, as we readily understand speech spoken by people with low and high voices and enjoy songs regardless of ...

22nd Congress of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology, Sept. 12-16, 2009, Turkey

... with mental disorders. Fighting the burden of mental disorders Our brain creates our life: perception, movement, thought and emotion, memories, speech and intelligence are features of this extraordinary and most complex organ. As a consequence, disorders of the brain deeply affect the life of ...

Nutricia launches Nutra Neocate, weaning product designed for cows’ milk protein allergy

... weaning infants with a choice and variety of different foods, tastes and textures they need to help with their mouth and tongue co-ordination for speech development.4 "We are delighted to introduce Neocate Nutra as the first and only amino acid-based weaning product for children with cows' milk ...

Author says challenging simple concepts can save planet

... she says our own pre-conceived ideas about how things should work our mental map of the world is actually preventing us from taking action. In a speech at Ottawa's Carleton University as part of the 78th Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Lapp called for a wholesale revamping of the way ...

A bad performance is better than no performance at all

... The learning of birdsong resembles the learning of speech in humans. Crucial for the process are acoustic perception and the ability to produce sound. Social isolation leads to a disturbed vocal development ...

DOE funds bio-inspired solar fuel center at Arizona State

... Ariz. -- Arizona State University will be home to a new Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) announced by the White House in conjunction with a speech delivered by President Barack Obama. The ASU center, one of 46 new EFRCs, will pursue advanced scientific research on solar energy conversion ...

DOE to establish Energy Frontier Research Center at PNNL

... be home to one of 46 new multi-million-dollar Energy Frontier Research Centers announced earlier this week by the White House in conjunction with a speech delivered by President Barack Obama at the annual meeting of the National Academy of Sciences. The EFRCs, which will pursue advanced scientific ...

DOE makes largest Danforth Campus research award in history

... be home to two of 46 new multi-million-dollar Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) announced April 27 by the White House in conjunction with a speech delivered by President Barack Obama at the annual meeting of the National Academy of Sciences. The EFRCs, which will pursue advanced scientific ...

NAS annual meeting, April 25-28

... APRIL 27, 8:30 A.M. TO 9:15 A.M. Annual Address by NAS President NAS President Ralph J. Cicerone will address the members. His speech will be audio webcast at http://national-academies.org . APRIL 27, 3 P.M. TO 5:30 P.M. Symposium on Developments in Evolutionary Biology This ...

Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prizes 2009: Six young researchers recognized for outstanding achievements

... of just 22 and became the leader of a Max Planck junior research group at the age of 26 has made a substantial contribution to the field of human speech processing, which has also received international recognition. Dr. Patrik L. Ferrari (31), mathematics, University of Bonn Patrik L. Ferrari ...

Researchers identify genetic markers for aggressive head and neck cancer

... surgery may involve removing large areas of the tongue, throat, or neck and can affect appearance, and any type of therapy can cause swallowing or speech problems that can significantly affect quality of life. Despite curative treatment attempts, on average only about half of patients survive beyond ...

Rising sea levels set to have major impacts around the world

... 20 centimeters since 1880," explains Professor Stefan Rahmstorf of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, who will give the plenary speech on sea level rise at the congress. These data also reveal that the rate of sea level rise is closely linked to temperature: sea level rises faster ...

Musicians have biological advantage in identifying emotion in sound

... in the Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory directed by neuroscientist Nina Kraus. The laboratory has done pioneering work on the neurobiology underlying speech and music perception and learning-associated brain plasticity. Kraus, Northwestern's Hugh Knowles Professor of Communication Sciences and ...

Scientists discover why teeth form in a single row

... 20 years and older are missing an average of four teeth due to gum disease, trauma or congenital defects. Tooth loss makes chewing difficult, causes speech problems, accelerates oral disease, and disfigures the face. Current treatments for missing teeth include dentures or dental implants, but each ...

Indoor air pollution increases asthma symptoms

... of factors. For every 10 ug/m3 increase in fine particles measured indoors, there was a 7 percent increase in days of wheezing severe enough to limit speech and after adjusting for various factors, a 4 percent increase in days on which rescue medication was needed. In many cases, the level of indoor fine ...

US science education organization updates analysis

... evolution wars are over, right? Scopes was finally vindicated, creationism was booted out of the classroom, and a new president in his inaugural speech issued a clarion call to "restore science to its rightful place". Wrong. Evolution education is being battered every day in school districts ...

High Performance, Low-Cost VoIP Chips Address Critical Performance Issues Such as Echo, Latency, and Packet Loss

... audio, and video applications. Adaptive Digital's products include network, line, and acoustic echo cancellation, high-density conferencing, speech compression, telephony, and voice quality algorithms. Recognized internationally for its quality software, Adaptive Digital's customers include ...

Tellme Enters Automotive Market

... recognition. Tellme manages more than 2 billion phone calls every year, providing a huge database for optimizing voice recognition. Unlike embedded speech recognition systems, which rely on the underpowered processors in mobile phones or personal navigation devices, Tellme performs speech recognition on ...

Maintaining the brain's wiring in aging and disease

... were published today in the journal Brain . Alzheimer's disease causes nerve cells in the brain to die, resulting in problems with memory, speech and understanding. Little is known about how the nerve cells die, but this new research has revealed how they first lose the ability to communicate ...

From sheet metal elements to host cells: DFG launches 10 new collaborative research centers

... This new type of collaborative research was seen as a "minor revolution" DFG President Professor Matthias Kleiner remembers in an anniversary speech to the Grants Committee. In both the universities and the DFG, Kleiner said, the Collaborative Research Centres had also initially given rise to ...

Baby talk: The roots of the early vocabulary in infants' learning from speech

... have increasingly focused on how infants handle whole words. Recent research has shown that during infancy, babies learn not only individual speech sounds but also the auditory forms of words; that is, babies are not only aware of the pieces that make up a word, but they are aware of the entire ...

Are you phonagnosic?

... of the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience presented KH with a series of tasks involving the recognition of faces, voices, vocal emotions, speech perception and music. KH struggled to recognise the voices of famous actors and politicians, and also had difficulty learning and recognising new ...

Genes that control cell death fingered in age-related hearing loss

... true for other diseases, for instance some types of cancer and heart disease." Frisina is co-director of the International Center for Hearing and speech Research, which is based both at the University of Rochester Medical Center and at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf in Rochester, N.Y. ...

The Rett Syndrome Research Trust launches operations

... infancy and two years of age. Onset may be heralded by hypotonia and delayed development, or by regression and loss of acquired skills, including speech and functional hand use. As the disorder progresses, symptoms may include disordered breathing, sleep disturbances, severe digestive problems, ...

£2 million study to reveal workings of dementia genes

... tend to be older. "Alzheimer's patients lose their awareness of space and time, whereas FTLD can result in changes in personality as well as speech and language difficulties," said Dr Stuart Pickering-Brown, who is leading the research. "Sufferers can become apathetic or exhibit behaviour at ...