Explore the profound connection between language, identity, and loss in a journey through forgotten tongues and cultural ...

Some concerts resonate beyond music, shaped as much by lived journeys as by the notes that unfold on stage. For Amritha Murali, her recital at The Music Academy was one such defining moment. She took ...

The numbers tell a politically uncomfortable truth. A survey of all Grade 4 children in Makhanda’s no-fee public schools this ...

Can a thought-controlled wheelchair or robotic dog become as second nature to control as the movement of one’s legs and arms?

Scientist from Shanghai, China developed and trained a brain-computer interface that can decode Mandarin Chinese syllables. Neurological conditions — such as strokes and degenerative diseases — can ...

Abstract: This paper presents a weighted finite state transducer (WFST) based syllable decoding and transduction framework for keyword search (KWS). Acoustic context dependent phone models are trained ...

Scientists have developed a brain-computer interface (BCI) capable of instantly translating a person’s thoughts into written Mandarin Chinese. The technology expands the reach of BCIs, devices that ...

Examining and decoding bird calls is becoming an increasingly popular field of study, as scientists like me are discovering that many birds - including mountain chickadees - follow systematic rules to ...

I approach a flock of mountain chickadees feasting on pine nuts. A cacophony of sounds, coming from the many different bird species that rely on the Sierra Nevada’s diverse pine cone crop, fill the ...