If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities?

Abstract: This study investigated the production of English unstressed vowels by Japanese speakers based on the J-AESOP corpus. Four acoustic features associated with unstressed vowels in English were ...

g2p means a task that converts graphemes to phonemes. Hangul, the main script for Korean, is phonetic, but the pronunciation rules are notoriously complicated. So it is never easy to learn how to read ...

The English language is full of fascinating patterns, exceptions, and creative spellings that make it one of the most studied languages in the world. Among these linguistic wonders are words that ...

Go back a little further though, and you will begin to struggle, partly thanks to what is known as the Great Vowel Shift, or ...

For 150 years, Broca's area has defined speech production. Now scientists have discovered a second parallel system that ...

that silent letters exist in English. and the spelling system just hasn't kept up with it. like through and thought and night ...

As it has for everything else, AI has now come for the accent. Companies like Krisp and Sanas sell real-time accent ...

I break down how to pronounce all six Chinese vowels across four tones, making it simple for beginners to follow along. My ...

The Greek word for Palestine, Palaistinē (Παλαιστίνη), is derived from the Hebrew phrase ʾEretz Yisrael (אֶרֶץ יִשְׂרָאֵל), ...