If you need to hit a nail, what tool do you ask for? If you say "hammer," do you pronounce the "r"? Do you drop the "h"? Different people pronounce the same English words in different ways. People ...
The Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models that power voice assistants like Amazon Alexa may have difficulty transcribing English speakers with minority dialects. [email protected] ...
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The Island Where English Sounds Three Centuries Old
The ferry ride to Ocracoke Island, North Carolina, reveals something extraordinary. This remote barrier island, which is accessible only by boat and sits twenty miles off the coast, is home to the ...
Rob Penhallurick is author of Studying Dialect (2018), published by Palgrave Macmillan. In another gig, McIntyre has similar fun with the Tyneside dialect: “So I met a Geordie quite recently. It was ...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
One afternoon this summer, my geologist dad and I were biking around the ruins of 18th- and 19th-century mines in west Cornwall. It is not such an unusual activity in my family, my father having spent ...
Yakov Pichkar receives funding from the John Templeton Foundation (grant no. 62187). Nicole Creanza receives funding from the National Science Foundation and the John Templeton Foundation. Different ...
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