Ensuring simple models of vocal fold vibrations can accurately reflect voice production allows for cheaper, faster analysis ...

Neanderthals -- the closest ancestor to modern humans -- possessed the ability to perceive and produce human speech, according to a new study. Neanderthals -- the closest ancestor to modern humans -- ...

Text-to-speech AI models are a great tool for instances where human voice actors are typically used, such as audiobooks, dubbing, commercials, and more. However, because these models are not human and ...

For over 150 years, neuroscientists have known that a small region in the left frontal lobe—Broca's area—plays a crucial role in speech production. Named after French physician Paul Broca, who ...

Budgerigars are the only animals known so far to have language-producing centers of neurons akin to those in humans, according to new research. H. Zell via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 Parrots ...

In context: Some of the implications of today's AI models are startling enough without adding a hyperrealistic human voice to them. We have seen several impressive examples over the last 10 years, but ...

Machine learning is bringing us closer to a Babel-fish-style universal translation device. Meta has released a new AI model that can translate speech from 101 different languages. It represents a step ...