Technology
A Link Between Hearing Voices and Hearing Your Own Voice
An experiment with bone-conduction headphones suggests a way for neuroscientists to better understand some hallucinations. Source
Voice and Speech
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How Voice Mail Messages Saved My Life
Voice mail messages from my family allowed me to slowly climb out of a state of gloom and self-imposed isolation. Source
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Tapping into the Brain to Help a Paralyzed Man Speak
For years, Pancho communicated by spelling out words on a computer using a pointer attached to a baseball cap, an arduous method that allowed him to type about five correct words per minute. “I had […]
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Ann Syrdal, Who Helped Give Computers a Female Voice, Dies at 74
Ann Syrdal, a psychologist and computer science researcher who helped develop synthetic voices that sounded like women, laying the groundwork for such modern digital assistants as Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa, died on July 24 […]