Speech unfolds over distinct temporal scales, in particular, those related to the rhythm of phonemes, syllables, and words. When a person listens to continuous speech, the syllabic rhythm is tracked ...

Following a stroke, some people experience a language disorder that hinders their ability to process speech sounds. How do ...

A new study comparing stroke survivors with healthy adults reveals that post-stroke language disorders stem not from slower ...

A new study shows that declines in hearing ability may accelerate gray mater atrophy in auditory areas of the brain and increase the listening effort necessary for older adults to successfully ...

Speech-language-hearing professionals often have to assess the speech perception and comprehension of bilinguals who suffer from a hearing or processing impairment. How they do so is an interesting ...

The comprehension of varied accents and the efficacy of speech recognition systems are of growing importance in the context of early childhood language acquisition. As children encounter speakers from ...

In the first experiment, the children had to understand whether or not the speaker was asking a question, and it was observed that comprehension was easier with just prosody (the speech patterns). In ...

Aging is associated with changes to speech comprehension that are both positive and negative. Older adults have larger vocabularies than younger adults, but may have more trouble hearing what is said.

A speech recognition startup just landed $62 million in Series B funding. How will the money be used? In a quest to enable a computer to understand every voice in the world. Speech recognition, then, ...