Neuroscience
Great article in the June Scientific American about efforts at IBM to create normal-sounding synthetic speech. They call it "concatenative speech synthesis" and it builds on phonemes required for particular words. The article is available for Hampshire folks via EBSCO's Academic Search Premier. But there's a great chart which illustrates how real words become syntheetic words, so if you can look at the print issue, you'll see that as well.
- Abstract Of The Day: Aphasia
Hengst JA, Frame SR, Neuman-Stritzel T, & Gannaway R. Using others' words: Conversational use of reported speech by individuals with aphasia and their communication partners. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. 2005 Feb; 48(1): 137-156....
- Language Development
Nature Reviews Neuroscience offers the full text (HTML and .pdf) of this interesting overview to language development in its November issue: Patricia K. Kuhl. Early language acquisition: Cracking the speech code. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 2004....
- Teaching Citation Searching To Grad Students
One of my student / trainers / colleagues and I co-wrote an article for Computers in Libraries about the UConn peer-to-peer training program. I've written about the Elsevier Student Ambassador Program here before (June 2007), but that post was brief,...
- Institutional Repository, Me?
Yes, it’s true! I have put my recent conference presentation into the University of Connecticut’s Institutional Repository. See for yourself, and let me know what you think. I may add more materials, but there are some issues to be worked out. Should...
- 2014 Commencement Speaker Proposals
If you had the opportunity to address your fellow graduates at this year's commencement ceremony, what would you say? Each year the Department of Psychology selects one undergraduate student to deliver a 5-minute speech at its commencement ceremony....
Neuroscience
Conversational Computers
Great article in the June Scientific American about efforts at IBM to create normal-sounding synthetic speech. They call it "concatenative speech synthesis" and it builds on phonemes required for particular words. The article is available for Hampshire folks via EBSCO's Academic Search Premier. But there's a great chart which illustrates how real words become syntheetic words, so if you can look at the print issue, you'll see that as well.
- Abstract Of The Day: Aphasia
Hengst JA, Frame SR, Neuman-Stritzel T, & Gannaway R. Using others' words: Conversational use of reported speech by individuals with aphasia and their communication partners. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. 2005 Feb; 48(1): 137-156....
- Language Development
Nature Reviews Neuroscience offers the full text (HTML and .pdf) of this interesting overview to language development in its November issue: Patricia K. Kuhl. Early language acquisition: Cracking the speech code. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 2004....
- Teaching Citation Searching To Grad Students
One of my student / trainers / colleagues and I co-wrote an article for Computers in Libraries about the UConn peer-to-peer training program. I've written about the Elsevier Student Ambassador Program here before (June 2007), but that post was brief,...
- Institutional Repository, Me?
Yes, it’s true! I have put my recent conference presentation into the University of Connecticut’s Institutional Repository. See for yourself, and let me know what you think. I may add more materials, but there are some issues to be worked out. Should...
- 2014 Commencement Speaker Proposals
If you had the opportunity to address your fellow graduates at this year's commencement ceremony, what would you say? Each year the Department of Psychology selects one undergraduate student to deliver a 5-minute speech at its commencement ceremony....