CLEVELAND, Ohio – The saying is a picture paints a thousand words. So does a voice. Voices create feeling and familiarity. The sound of a person’s voice is a unique characteristic. We depend on our ...

Dan Sandler has dozens of podcast episodes and audiobooks he wants to listen to, but so little time. So does Brandee Mahn. And Ami Lynn Kane. So they’ve found a way to keep up. The three are part of a ...

Speech and language scientists have known for some time that age impacts speech perception. Neuroscientists have also come to understand how functional brain differences (or how the brain executes ...

What happens when you listen to speech at a different speed? Neuroscientists thought that your brain may turn up its processing speed as well. But it turns out that at least the auditory part of the ...

Freedom of speech is a bedrock of American society and one of the most fundamental rights protected both by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and Article 1 of the Connecticut State ...

The Best Text-to-Speech Apps and Tools for 2026 Reading is great, but sometimes you want or need to listen. Let your computer or phone read aloud to you with the top text-to-speech software for ...

Here is a list of the best free open source text to speech converter software for Windows 11/10. Text to speech or TTS is no new technology and is used in a wide number of applications in modern times ...

Do human newborns develop their preference for speech through in-utero eavesdropping, or is their penchant for speech innate? It's a bedevilling question to test, but one that's central to ...

The Speech Accessibility Project is a research initiative to make voice recognition technology more useful for people with a range of diverse speech patterns and disabilities. The project is housed ...

The military and other parts of the government have long sought the technology that can listen to spoken words, translate them if necessary and identify the voice. That’s the general idea of a system ...