Given the current interest in the implications of automated computer analysis of voice recordings, say for example telephone calls, it’s perhaps not surprising that some might have thought about disguising their voice to (try to) avoid recognition and/or obfuscate the content. But those who work professionally in the voice-recognition field have been investigating such nefarious […]
Tag: speech
Masculine Men Mumble? (study)
A joint study from Professor Vera Kempe (The University of Abertay Dundee, Scotland) and two members of the PUTS lab. (Pennsylvania State University, US), Professor David A. Puts, and Dr. Rodrigo A. Cárdenas, has, possibly for the first time, investigated the proposition that ‘Masculine Men Articulate Less Clearly’ (in: Human Nature journal, December 2013, Volume […]
Reversal linguistics in explorations
“Geoffrey Sampson defends the extraordinary claim that there is no theoretically significant non-quantitative linguistic difference between a sentence of English and a string composed of the same words in the opposite order. Let me put that a different way. Order opposite the in words same the of composed string a and English of sentence a […]
Robots speech – Japanese pneumatic style
There are now several well-established ways to create artificial voices – some take a purely electronic approach, while others, like Professor Hideyuki Sawada at Kagawa University, Japan, have explored electro-mechanical methods. The video above shows how pneumatically-driven artificial lips, tongues, voicebox and nasal resonating cavities might simulate speech. Unfortunately, the mpeg videos linked-to via the […]