The parakeets commonly kept as pets could offer fresh clues about vocal learning and potential treatments for speech ...

NPR wants to know who is feeling more and less free to exercise their free speech rights in this moment. Have you found yourself letting loose more under President Trump or are you holding back?

Brain activity in vocalizing budgerigar parrots showed a pattern that harkened to those found in the brains of people.

Platforms like ElevenLabs, Speechify, Resemble AI, and others use powerful speech synthesis models to analyze and recreate voices, and sometimes with little-to-no safeguards in place. Some try ...

To the extent that today courts often use "speech" as shorthand for speech and press (and petition), that is a product of the vigor of the Press Clause, not a sign that the Clause has been forgotten.

Studies have shown students involved in speech and debate score better in reading tests and have higher self-esteem. As Iowa’s U.S. senator, I use speech and debate skills every day — whether ...

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Former Vice President Kamala Harris took veiled jabs at President Donald Trump and Department of Government Efficiency chief Elon Musk during her first major speech since her election loss in ...

"Trump" autocorrects to "racist" when using speech-to-text dictation mode. According to Apple, it's a problem with "phonetic overlap", and a fix is already in the works. After TikTok videos of the ...

Opinion columnist Michelle Goldberg and contributing Opinion writer Frank Bruni join Patrick Healy, the deputy Opinion editor, at the halfway mark of President Trump’s first 100 days in office ...

In her children’s stories, Clarice Lispector disguised philosophical questions in cheerful, kooky fables about exuberant animals with places to be. By Joumana Khatib In Linda Joan Smith’s ...

What happens in the demo is pretty simple. Two AIs use a tech called GGWave to turn regular speech into sound waves that don’t mean anything to a human ear. The point here is to transmit data ...