Sentences with phrase «human speech sounds»

For four decades, the inability of nonhuman primates to produce human speech sounds has been claimed to stem from limitations in their vocal tract anatomy, a conclusion based on plaster casts made from the vocal tract of a monkey cadaver.

«This finding opens up a huge avenue of research in parrots, in trying to understand how parrots are processing the information necessary to copy novel sounds and what are the mechanisms that underlie imitation of human speech sounds,» said Mukta Chakraborty, a post-doctoral researcher in the lab of Erich Jarvis, an associate professor of neurobiology at Duke and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.

As a result, these implants make human speech sound a bit like that of a dalek, and music can be unpleasant.

Not exact matches

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An international team of scientists led by Duke University researchers has uncovered key structural differences in the brains of parrots that may explain the birds» unparalleled ability to imitate sounds and human speech.

Humans were thought to be the only primate with vocal learning — the ability to hear a sound and repeat it, considered essential for speech.

Research into how the brain processes time, sound and movement has implications for understanding how humans listen to music and speech, as well as for treating diseases like Parkinson's.

«All humans grow up listening to tens of thousands of speech examples, with the result that our brains contain a comprehensive mapping of the likelihood that any given pair of mouth movements and speech sounds go together,» said Dr. Michael Beauchamp, professor of neurosurgery at Baylor College of Medicine and senior author on the paper with John Magnotti, postdoctoral research fellow at Baylor.

In that study, published in January 2015, it was reported that a female orangutan called Tilda at Cologne Zoo, in Germany, was able to make sounds comparable to human consonant and vowel - like calls at the same rhythm and pace as human speech.

He has shown that orangutans can mimic sounds from human speech.

Thode and colleagues tweaked a human speech modeling technique to reproduce dolphin sounds and discern the intricacies of their unique style of sound production.

«Rocky» the ginger ape has astonished experts by producing sounds similar to words, a feat that might help us study the evolutionary origins of human speech

These neurons encode a memory of learned vocal sounds and form a crucial (and hitherto only theorized) part of the neural system that allows songbirds to hear, imitate, and learn its species» songs — just as human infants acquire speech sounds.

Equipped with carefully implanted electrodes, the alert ferrets listened to both ferret sounds and parts of human speech.

Human beings speak more than 6,000 distinct language, and each language allows some ways to combine speech sounds into sequences but prohibits others.

For humans to understand speech and for other animals to know each other's calls, the brain must distinguish short sounds from longer sounds.

Speech recognition technologies allow computers equipped with a source of sound input, such as a microphone, to interpret human speech.

These stimulate areas of the brain that would normally respond to the different sound frequencies of human speech.

Zatorre, R. J. Cerebral correlates of human auditory processing; perception of speech and musical sounds.

Select and SpeakSelect and Speak uses iSpeech's human sounding text to speech (TTS) to let you select text from almost any website and make it talk.

Polly is the AWS text - to - speech service that uses deep learning to synthesize speech that sounds like a human voice.

Another feature of human speech is that it comes in bursts; a mix of different sounds and pauses between sounds, plus inflection and intonation.

Monkeys» vocal equipment can produce the sounds of human speech, research shows, but they lack the connections between the auditory and motor parts of the brain that humans rely on to imitate words.

In this Sneak Peak Ali Miharbi gives an overview of his recent practice, including his sound installation Whisper, that is based on the shapes human vocal tract during speech.

There was so much sound and so many kinds of speech all around the city; New York was full of human and mechanical sound, and that's what I sought to reflect in my paintings.

BBC News — Beluga whale «makes human - like sounds» — anon — Weird because it does indeed sound like garbled human speech.

The result is a fast, flexible speech engine that sounds more human — and less like a robot.

The flexibility of the Alexa voice model is astounding in that it can now distinguish animal sounds in addition to human speech.