“This is the first causal evidence that a speech experience is contributing to brain development at this very young age,” ...

Discover the meaning of “language deprivation” and why accessible language exposure for children born deaf or hard of hearing is important.

Some public schools do offer ASL to deaf students, but it's often after age three. Depending on the program, enrolling ...

Hearing the sound of their mother's voice promotes development of language pathways in a premature baby's brain, according to ...

Babies born too soon seem to have stronger connections in one of the major brain areas that supports language processing if they regularly heard their mother read them a story while in intensive care ...

Speech rhythm, a key attribute of natural languages that directly influences the effectiveness and efficiency of communication, is often compromised in people with neurodegenerative diseases such as ...

Cochlear implants give children with profound hearing loss a much better chance to learn spoken language. However, the sounds from a cochlear implant aren't as clear as natural hearing, making it ...

Abstract: End-to-end speech-to-text translation (E2E ST) has increasingly aroused interest and attention recently, attempting to address the problem of data scarcity and modeling burden. Several ...