Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Descendants of the indigenous San people in the Kalahari Desert. Eric Lafforgue/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Image Research carried out ...

Health Team Human speech sounds evolved because of our diet, study says Although languages around the world vary greatly, some share similar speech sounds. A new study suggests that labiodental sounds ...

Artificial intelligence was built to process data, not to think like us. Yet a growing body of research is finding that the internal workings of advanced language and speech models are starting to ...

A new study from UC San Francisco challenges the traditional view of how the brain strings sounds together to form words and orchestrates the movements to pronounce them. Speaking is one of the most ...

This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast. Just a few years ago, it was pretty easy to tell if you were communicating with a human or a bot. But now, voices and text powered by ...

Dogs may have better linguistic talents than scientists have previously given them credit for. The ability to recognize specific word sounds in human speech is a difficult task since small differences ...

The researchers used biomechanical models replicating human speech and determined that labiodentals require about 30% less muscular effort in the overbite model compared with the edge to edge bite.