This helps children become more aware of how their tongues, throats and mouths are positioned when they produce various speech sounds.
Computers invaded my life in 1985, when my mother, a master's student at UTEP, bought a RadioShack Tandy TRS-80 4P to pound out her thesis on the negative transfer of speech sounds from second to first language.
Michael Studdert-Kennedy, a psychologist at the Haskins Laboratory, in New Haven, Connecticut, and one of the most vigorous critics of the approach, argues that other studies have shown that the brain processes speech sounds completely differently from non-speech sounds, and that the hearing problem identified by Dr Merzenich's group thus has nothing to do with dyslexia.
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Only humans, though, develop the physical capability to make the complex sounds of speech.
Through a range of listening exercises, the researchers claim, the game replaces the brain's faulty phonemic representation with one that is more faithful to the sounds of speech.
While dolphins have been taught to mimic the pattern and durations of sounds in human speech, no animal has spontaneously tried such mimicry.
So when he writes his dialogue it sounds like natural speech.
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The soft sounds of music and speech are amplified in the enhancement mode.
The model also included a microphone which can monitor background noise and determine whether to amplify certain sounds - such as speech - to improve the listening experience.
Yet speech recognition depends on dictionaries of words and sounds that are hugely expensive to compile.
Current audio technologies struggle to replicate this experience, because fuller sounds can mask high tones making speech and music sound muddled.
An optical-character-recognition machine for the blind that's capable of reading most types of printed text aloud, the CCD flatbed scanner, speech-recognition software, the first synthesizer that created sounds virtually indistinguishable from those produced by their acoustic counterparts, and a whole bunch of other nifty things we can barely comprehend came from Ray's brain.
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