Roughly 8-9% of young children have a speech sound disorder, which results in difficulties producing speech sounds correctly and often has no known cause, according to the National Institute on ...

People's ability to perceive speech sounds has been deeply studied, specially during someone's first year of life, but what happens during the first hours after birth? Are babies born with innate ...

Most speech models today are trained primarily on healthy, typical voices. This means they tend to break or underperform when users sound different. This is obviously a huge accessibility gap.

Thanks to the advancements in AI, text-to-speech has evolved to become more natural and realistic to an extent that it may be hard to distinguish it from a human voice.

Music and speech are among the most frequent types of sounds we hear. But how do we identify what we think are differences between the two? An international team of researchers mapped out this ...

Exclusive: Sonos launches its first AI-powered sound mode to enhance speech, developed with a major hearing-loss charity – and it sounds great. News. By Matt Bolton published 12 May 2025 ...

Speech language therapy is part of a student's Individualized Education Plan (IEP). Some students need more hours with a speech therapist. Others only need a few and they're on their way.

In Do I Sound Gay?, director David Thorpe searches for the origin of the so-called "gay voice" and documents his own attempts (with speech pathologist Susan Sankin) to sound "less gay." ...

On Thursday, Microsoft researchers announced a new text-to-speech AI model called VALL-E that can closely simulate a person's voice when given a three-second audio sample. Once it learns a ...

Making the “r” sound is one of the most common and hard-to-fix speech problems in children. A new technique might help solve this.