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Ben is watching AI Explained , a YouTube channel that covers the latest AI developments and their implications. Read Ryan’s article Do large language models …
In the film Arrival, Amy Adams plays a linguist trying to decode an alien language. The score was composed by Johann Johannsson, his third film collaborating wi…
Unlike before, proficiency in an Indigenous Mexican language, such as Zapótec or Nahuatl, can meet the agency's language requirement, In the U.S. alone, the fir…
Six months of piano lessons can heighten kindergartners' brain responses to different pitches, and improve their ability to tell apart two similar-sounding word…
A study of adults learning a new language found that speaking primarily activated regions in the left side of the brain, but reading and listening comprehension…
Linguist Ben Zimmer says the pandemic has turned us all into amateur epidemiologists utilizing terms such as “superspreader” and “asymptomatic.” Christopher Int…
Florida manatees are “talking” up a storm, and a team that has been recording those sounds for seven years is starting to understand the chatter. Learn more abo…
The new field of digital bioacoustics is using machine learning to try decipher animal speak, including honeybee toots and quacks and whoops. Learn more about y…
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The Democratic presidential ticket has literally diverse voices. While Vice President Kamala Harris’s speech is influenced by her Californian origins, the way M…
