Multicenter study led by NYU Langone Medical Center shows that device leads to major improvements in hearing and speech recognition People with a common form of hearing loss not helped by he... Read more
Speech is produced in the human cerebral cortex. Brain waves associated with speech processes can be directly recorded with electrodes located on the surface of the cortex. It has now been s... Read more
After 60 years of false starts, the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) with probability and statistics has led to a marriage of machine learning, control theory and neuroscience tha... Read more
Artificial intelligence (AI) research has explored a variety of problems and approaches since its inception, but for the last 20 years or so has been focused on the problems surrounding the... Read more
Algorithm lets independent agents collectively produce a machine-learning model without aggregating data. Machine learning, in which computers learn new skills by looking for patterns in tra... Read more
A new approach allows “smart” machines to understand sounds other than speech Robots can already discern and react to speech thanks to voice-recognition software such as the iPhone’s S... Read more
Simultaneous translation by computer is getting closer IN “STAR TREK”, a television series of the 1960s, no matter how far across the universe the Starship Enterprise travelled, any aliens i... Read more
Research at the University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology has resulted in a new type of machine that sorts used batteries by means of artificial intelligence (AI). One m... Read more
A voice-enabled future VLAD SEJNOHA is talking to the TV again. O.K., maybe you’ve done that, too. But here’s the weird thing: His TV is listening. “Dragon TV,” Mr. Sejnoha says to the scree... Read more
Utter! is able to process your various requests and send them to different apps New app Utter!, currently in beta, uses voice recognition to utilize the functionality of apps already install... Read more
What’s in a name? A lot, apparently. Apple’s new iPhone is called the iPhone 4S. But what people really wanted was the iPhone 5. The rumors online had predicted the second coming — or, rathe... Read more
The Lonely Planet Offline Translator The Lonely Planet Offline Translator apps, which are initially being launched in eight languages, is essentially a rebranding of the Jibbigo mobile langu... Read more
You have little trouble hearing what your companion is saying in a noisy cafe, but computers are confounded by this “cocktail party problem.” New algorithms finally enable machin... Read more
Image via Wikipedia THERE is often something sweet, intimate even, about couples who finish each other’s sentences. But it can also be a source of irritation, especially when they get it wro... Read more