Dialogue plays an important part in fiction – it brings characters to life and advances the plot; the dialogue must seem real in order to be credible, although it may be adjusted to be reader-friendly ...

Nicole Salica worked on a project that combined technologies of robotics and speech recognition to deliver a natural and intuitive way of managing robots through speech. (Photo by Scott Rappaport) ...

The program pairs multilingual students with staff members to help them prepare for day-to-day conversations in English.

English is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world and is frequently used as a teaching language in classrooms. Children in the classroom benefit from having strong English communication ...

Can’t hear the TV anymore? You’re not alone. TV dialogue has gotten harder to understand over the years, leading everyone to turn subtitles on while watching. Today, that problem is top of mind as ...

Netflix has launched a new subtitle option that gives viewers the choice to get rid of audio cues − background noises like door slamming or phone buzzing − in closed captions. With the release of the ...

Regardless of what streaming service I might use, I don't hit play on a movie or TV show until I've enabled subtitles, even if I understand the language. It's not just that I suffer from mild hearing ...

Linguistics merged with computer science last week at a hands-on demonstration of spoken dialogue systems by UCSC students at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View. Students from associate ...