The late UCLA professor Peter Ladefoged was the Indiana Jones of spoken language. For almost 50 years, the phonetics researcher traveled the globe with recording equipment, in search of obscure and ...

A recent Facebook report on the way chatbots converse with each other has given the world a glimpse into the future of language. In the report, researchers from the Facebook Artificial Intelligence ...

A new study carried out at the University of Haifa sheds light on how first and second languages are represented in the brain of a bilingual person. A unique single case study that was tested by Dr.

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When Allen Jay Elementary School began its dual-language immersion program in English and Urdu, school officials initially considered translating the curriculum used for the school’s similar program ...

Speechmatics is going after Google. The British startup took the wraps off Automatic Linguist last month, a powerful artificial intelligence that can learn any language for speech-to-text ...

As languages are becoming extinct at an alarming rate, speakers of endangered languages are turning to technology in a race against time to pass on their unique languages and cultures to the next ...

Megan (She/They) is a freelance journalist from the United Kingdom for the digital publication, Game Rant. She has been professionally writing gaming content for roughly four years now, since starting ...