Distinctive phonetic features (DPFs) are one of the most representative features of the speech signals. The significance of DPFs is in their ability to provide abstract description of the places and ...

South Carolina is sweet tea, Spanish moss, and saying “yes ma’am” with a smile—but if you butcher a town name, that smile ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with Houston Public Media listener Ed Menger and Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will ...

Zhou Zhang and Kevin Curry present a monumental riddle in their Sunday puzzle debut.

Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweepin’ down the plain—and so do confused tourists trying to pronounce our town names. With ...

Linguists say this joyful weirdness isn’t random—it’s rooted in how humans build bonds, play with sound, and treat animals ...

Sperm whale clicking might not sound like much in a recording, but their vocalizations are the loudest on Earth, with these ...

Speeding the availability of language resources for endangered languages. Tools such as this have the power to shift how we think about endangered languages. Rather than perceiving them as being ...

While you might think people are just picking random words—and indeed some might be—there is actually a defined military phonetic alphabet that was established over the first half of the 1900s that ...

A man with a severe speech disability is able to speak expressively and sing using a brain implant that translates his neural activity into words almost instantly. The device conveys changes of ...

A man with a severe speech disability is able to speak expressively and sing using a brain implant that translates his neural activity into words almost instantly. The device conveys changes of ...