Taukeer Alam, a writer of Van Gujjari, a vulnerable dialect with low documentation, shares the need for audio-visual ...

Spoken language identification and recognition has emerged as a pivotal area within speech processing, addressing the task of automatically determining the language spoken in an audio signal. This ...

Researchers have learned the efficiency by which people recognize spoken words depends as much on the mind as on hearing ability. In a new study, the researchers examined how well adults across the ...

Adding data such as hand and facial expressions, as well as skeletal information on the position of the hands relative to the body, to the information on the general movements of the signer’s upper ...

Postdoctorate Viet Anh Trinh led a project within Strand 1 to develop a novel neural network architecture that can both recognize and generate speech. He has since moved on from iSAT to a role at ...

Sign-language technology promises to "make your content available to millions" by using artificial intelligence to translate videos or even audio announcements into sign language. Many members of the ...

How well we understand spoken language may depend more on our brains than our ears. In a new study, University of Iowa researchers investigated how quickly people across the life span—from youths to ...

A research team improved the AI recognition accuracy of word-level sign language recognition by adding data such as the signer's hand and facial expressions, as well as skeletal information on the ...