What Does Your Speech Reveal? We use language to express our identity. Our way of speaking varies and changes to reflect who we are and who we want to be. Carmen Fought asks the provocative questions: ...
Geneva Smitherman ended up in speech therapy in her freshman year at Wayne State University in the 1950s, when she failed a test to screen incoming teaching students for possible speech problems. The ...
So something I've noticed is that when I try to talk to my smart speaker, Alexa doesn't always get what I'm trying to say. And don't get me started on those apps that transcribe interviews. So why am ...
When it comes to technology, we know that there is racial bias. And unfortunately, automatic speech recognition (ASR) is no different. But Howard University and Google are trying to change that. They ...
Oxford University Press has announced a large-scale study that will culminate in the Oxford Dictionary of African American English, the brainchild of historian Henry Louis Gates that will focus on the ...
There are many differences between British and American punctuation, spelling, and grammar. Neither version is more correct than the other; which version you should use just depends on who your ...
As far back as 2016, work on AI-based chatbots revealed that they have a disturbing tendency to reflect some of the worst biases of the society that trained them. But as large language models have ...
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