Listen closely to those baboon calls. They may tell you a thing or two about human speech. Scientists who studied baboons’ wahoos, yaks, barks and other vocalizations have found evidence of five vowel ...

Speech sound disorder (SSD) encompasses a group of communication disorders in which children have persistent difficulty articulating words or sounds correctly. Speech sound production requires both ...

No experience with human speech is necessary for budgerigars to perceive the difference between 'd' and 't', according to a new study. No experience with human speech is necessary for budgerigars to ...

Hearing is so effortless for most of us that it’s often difficult to comprehend how much information the brain’s auditory system needs to process and disentangle. It has to take incoming sounds and ...

Music and speech are among the most frequent types of sounds we hear. But how do we identify what we think are differences between the two? An international team of researchers mapped out this process ...

Audio deepfakes, by definition, are synthetic audio recordings generated using deep learning-based systems for either malicious, artistic, or entertainment ...

It turns out to depend on what is being studied, found a recent study. Researchers from four countries (Finland, Hungary, Germany, and France) measured EEG-based brain responses for non-speech and ...