Are there secrets in your search history?
We sometimes submit search queries that we wouldn’t admit to friends. And by looking at our searches, researchers can unearth things we’d rather keep hidden, including covert racism and sexual predilections.
Linguist Daniel …
Is it the Persian Gulf, or the Arabian Gulf? It depends on who you ask.
But Google’s map makers are finding that it’s hard to stay impartial to political conflict when putting a name on a map can cause international …
Language technology tends to focus on people who speak. But what about for people who sign?
A Scottish team has announced a new app to convert signs into text, but that’s just one part of the picture.
Linguist Daniel Midgley…
A team of scientists has developed a technique for turning brain activity into words.
Soon, it may be possible to reconstruct conversations — in effect, to read minds. How does it work? Do we even think in words?
Linguist Daniel …
Apple’s Siri software has put automatic speech recognition back in the news.
We finish our two-part discussion with stupid Siri tricks, and some ways that Siri has become embroiled in controversy. And why is Siri female?
Linguist Daniel Midgley will …
Speech recognition has come a long way.
With the emergence of Siri on the iPhone, good speech recognition is within the reach of many of us. How does it work? Why is automatic speech recognition so difficult? And what tricks …
Do you have an accent?
Of course you do; everybody does. And now there’s the Speech Accent Archive, an internet database that you can browse, containing sound data from hundreds of speakers of English from around the globe. What is …
This week on Talk the Talk, we’re talking about spam.
Not the spicy ham product, but the wretched dreck that clogs your inbox. Why do we call it spam? How does your computer know if your email is spam? …
For 140 characters, Twitter can tell us a lot about ourselves.
By looking at masses of tweets, word-crunching software can tell when we’re feeling up or down, help us decide what stocks to buy or sell, and track the spread …
Linguists and researchers are working on AusTalk — a database of Australian English.
With a thousand speakers, it will be the largest repository of English outside the UK. But what’s it for? What are we expecting to find? And how …
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