Sentences with phrase «imitating human speech»

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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.

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.

May 9, 2018 • The company touts AI that peppers its conversation with «uh» and «hmm» to imitate the tics of human speech.

Its shape is derived from the talking drum, an instrument of the West African Yoruba people that is named for its ability to imitate the tone and prosody of human speech.

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.