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Further multidisciplinary research is needed to study the molecular, neural and cognitive mechanisms of birdsong, and its similarities with human speech. Such analyses may ultimately have ...

Budgerigars, small and colorful parrots, are known for their ability to mimic human speech. Scientists have now discovered that these parrots may have the same brain mechanism for speech as humans. A ...

Experiments showed babies identifying lip and tongue-tip sounds from invented languages through visual and sound associations, indicating that they start understanding speech mechanisms before ...

Spectrogram, Multi-Head Self-Attention, Loss Function Share and Cite: Li, B. (2025) Speech Emotion Recognition Based on CNN-Transformer with Different Loss Function. Journal of Computer and ...

Brain activity in vocalizing budgerigar parrots showed a pattern that harkened to those found in the brains of people.

New research reveals that parrots produce speech using brain structures remarkably similar to those in humans.