Sentences with phrase «learn human speech»

Known for their charming, comical personalities and their willingness to learn human speech, the Quaker Parrot is an excellent choice for those who want all the fun of a large parrot in a smaller package.

It's worth noting that talking birds don't learn human speech in the wild; it's believed that when in captivity, the birds» innate need to socialize is what draws them to mimic humans.

With A.I.'s ability to learn human speech patterns (think of Siri or Google's Cortana), and adaptability to human wants and needs, as well as their living habits (think Alexa or the Google Home), Elon Musk is firm in his conviction that A.I. will only bring destruction.

Not exact matches

The pastor must learn how to use human speech to declare the divine address.

To test whether domestic dogs have learned to process human speech as we do, Victoria Ratcliffe and David Reby at the University of Sussex in Falmer, UK, placed 25 dogs between two speakers.

For instance, humans might label parts of speech in a set of texts, and the machine - learning system will try to identify patterns that resolve ambiguities — for instance, when «her» is a direct object and when it's an adjective.

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

The human «language gene» has helped us learn the rules of speech and maybe even grammar

The investigators then strive to determine whether human subjects show the same learning patterns for monkey calls as they do for human speech.

Early in her graduate school career at the University of Arizona, Tucson, Maye (pictured right) decided she wanted to focus on psycholinguistics, a relatively new branch of linguistics that draws on cognitive sciences, including psychology, computer science, artificial intelligence, speech and hearing, and neural imaging to explain how humans learn language.

Deep learning is what allows Apple's «personal assistant,» Siri, to pick up on (most) human speech, and it's what lets Facebook's image recognition software use small visual cues to pick out things like individual faces.

Those findings — published this week in Current Biology — suggest that the gene, known as FOXP2 is involved in learning the muscle movements necessary for speech, explains co-author Simon Fisher, a professor of molecular neuroscience at Oxford's Wellcome Trust Center for Human Genetics.

Like humans, songbirds such as zebra finches (above) can learn vocalizations, and this similarity suggests they could serve as models for research on Huntington's disease and other neurodegenerative disorders that affect speech and vocalization.

An orca called Wikie who learned to mimic human speech could teach us a lot about killer whale culture — but that's no reason to keep orcas in captivity

Brain Institute demonstrates in songbirds the necessity of this neural circuit to learn vocalizations at a young age, a finding that expands the scientific understanding of some contributing factors in speech disorders in humans.

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.

But a few mammals such as bats, whales and elephants use complex and varied vocalizations that share some characteristics with human speech such as the ability to learn vocalizations from other members of their social group.

In a new finding with implications to human learning, memory, and speech acquisition, researchers at the University of Chicago Medical Center have correlated the simple notes and more complex passages of a bird's song to activity in different areas of the brain.

«It's interesting to human biology, because song learning in birds has compelling similarities to speech acquisition.»

Birdsong learning shares another remarkable feature with human speech learning.

Song acquisition is often used as a model system for how humans learn speech.

We previously found parallel FoxP2 expression patterns in human and songbird cortico / pallio - striatal circuits important for learned vocalizations, suggesting that FoxP2's function in birdsong may generalize to speech.

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

They learn not to be afraid of the human speech.

Dr. Clive Wynne will be discussing all aspects of the research being carried at the Canine Science Collaboratory, including research in social reinforcement, odor discrimination in learning and the effects of odor on behavior, as well as gesture studies Canine cognition, domestic dogs and human gestures, domestic dogs, human speech and more.

Researchers decided to look into this pet - directed speech, which is similar to the tone of voice used for human babies «known to engage infants» attention and promote language learning.»

Mathevon and his colleagues concluded that puppies are more sensitive to the higher acoustics of dog - directed speech, adding that use of the baby talk could assist young dogs with learning words, just as it does with human babies.

When talking to dogs, human adults use pet - directed speech similar to infant - directed speech (high pitch, slow tempo), which is known to engage infant attention and promote language learning.

By showing the publicly accessible TVO video in class, she was accused of creating an unsafe and toxic learning environment, the crime of transphobia, violating Laurier's gender violence policy and somehow breaching both the Charter of Rights (which actually protects free speech) and the Canadian Human Rights Act (which didn't apply to Laurier), proving that when non-lawyers in positions of power think they know the law, they always get it wrong when they use it to bully and harass their subordinates.

Amazon on Wednesday made the AI and voice - recognition software that powers the company's Alexa virtual assistant available to all its cloud - computing customers.Called Amazon Lex, the service will allow developers to make chat bot applications using Alexa's voice recognition technology and leverage the AI's deep learning abilities to enable their apps to understand more text and speech queries.Amazon CTO Werner Vogels said that Amazon's cloud - based work in processing how humans write and speak would make chat bots more helpful than the clunky tools they've been in the past.