People who lose the ability to speak such as ALS and brain injury sufferers has a new way to communicate. Michael Callahan and Tom Coleman developed Audeo, a human-computer interface for communication.
The current product lets people use all English phonemes, the forty or so sounds that make up words. The output speed is about a fifth of normal speech. It only takes days to learn how to speak in terms of phonemes in order to drive the device.
Original Article from Arie Wijaya
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Babies can distinguish their native language and accent at as early as five months. Ed Yong reviewed on several child development studies...
From 4 to 6 months, infants react when a muted video clip of a person speaking changes language. Babies generally lose this ability at 8 months unless they are expose to multiple languages. Another study showed a child's ability to gesture at 14 months can predict their vocabulary a age 4 and 5. These findings suggest it is important to spend time with your baby and use visual cues and gestures to help them gain skills early on.
first language and accent
Early Childhood Gesture and Affluence.
From 4 to 6 months, infants react when a muted video clip of a person speaking changes language. Babies generally lose this ability at 8 months unless they are expose to multiple languages. Another study showed a child's ability to gesture at 14 months can predict their vocabulary a age 4 and 5. These findings suggest it is important to spend time with your baby and use visual cues and gestures to help them gain skills early on.
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first language and accent
Early Childhood Gesture and Affluence.
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