We've all been there: caught in a conversation where one person dominates the airwaves, leaving little room for anyone else ...

An almost universal phenomenon in humans is the use of child-directed speech, where caregivers communicate with children, ...

Now, we have a lot of FC or facilitated communication, stories in the news. Once again, I am frequently inundated with suggestions of, “Hey, have you tried…” or “I saw on the news….” Better still, ...

Opera is all about singing, so what do you do with a character who is non-verbal? That's the challenge faced by composer Paola Prestini with her new opera Sensorium Ex, which premiered in late May ...

For the first two years, accessibility designer Lauren Race queried the non-verbal community about what they wanted from a new speaking device. She asked, "What do you want with this thing?

Prestini cast two non-verbal actors to share the role of Kitsune on alternate days: Kader Zioueche, 17, who has cerebral palsy, and Jakob Jordan, a 23-year-old man with autism and apraxia, a condition ...

Non-verbal vocal interaction (NVVI) allows people to use non-speech as an interaction technique. Many forms of NVVI exist, including humming, whistling, and tongue clicking, but the quantity of ...

While their haunting howls might be their most famous vocalization, much of wolf communication happens silently. These remarkable predators have developed an intricate system of non-verbal cues that ...

The core contribution of voc2vec lies in the careful selection of diverse, open-source datasets for pre-training, specifically chosen to focus on non-verbal vocalizations. These datasets collectively ...