Want to sound more natural when speaking English? In this lesson, you’ll learn how native speakers pronounce American English — from short and long vowels to the subtle sounds that make your accent ...

For 150 years, Broca's area has defined speech production. Now scientists have discovered a second parallel system that controls the melody and rhythm of how we speak and sing.

"So many people have noticed this change but didn’t quite know how to describe it until now," Vivian Peterson told Newsweek.

The English language is full of fascinating patterns, exceptions, and creative spellings that make it one of the most studied languages in the world. Among these linguistic wonders are words that ...

Phonetics is all about studying the sounds we make when we talk. There are three main branches of this discipline: This is the study of the sound waves made by the human vocal organs for communication ...

Initiation: Setting air in motion through the vocal tract. Phonation: The modification of airflow as it passes through the larynx (related to voicing). Articulation: The shaping of airflow to generate ...

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She built a career training voices to sound "neutral." But one stranger's whisper made her question everything, and rediscover the beauty of her own accent.

Abstract: In Brain Computer Interfacing (BCI), speech imagery is still at nascent stage of development. There are few studies reported considering mostly vowels or monosyllabic words. However, ...

As it has for everything else, AI has now come for the accent. Companies like Krisp and Sanas sell real-time accent ...

New IPA research finds influencer marketing ROI outperforms linear TV and paid social, delivering “strong returns particularly over the long term”. Spanning 220 campaigns from 144 brands across 36 ...