The emphasis on speech science is a sign that Amazon is betting that its Alexa digital assistant is at the vanguard of voice - based commerce, a form of shopping that Mr. Melich said was poised to grow at a rapid clip the way mobile buying did several years ago. (nytimes.com)
«We tend to think of kids as being the source of noise more than the victims of noise,» said Nan Bernstein Ratner, a professor of hearing and speech sciences at the University of Maryland. (aaas.org)
Penned by phoneticians Anders Eriksson of the University of Gothenburg and Francisco Lacerda of Stockholm University, both in Sweden, the controversial paper appeared in the December 2007 issue of The International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law with the title «Charlatanry in forensic speech science: A problem to be taken seriously.» (sciencemag.org)