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 ...

But here’s the catch: instead of using these models to transcribe what’s being said, they measured how the voice sounds, using seven core dimensions. Intelligibility : how easy the speech is ...

Introduced last week, Lyrebird’s speech synthesis can generate thousands of sentences per second—significantly faster than existing methods—and mimic just about any voice, an advancement ...

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 ...

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.