Advanced brain recording techniques have revealed how neurons in the human brain work together to produce speech.
The recordings provide a detailed map of how people think about what words they want to say and then speak them aloud, researchers report in the Jan. 31 issu...
Many people with Lou Gehrig's disease, also called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), first start to lose the ability to move their arms and legs.
That's not Pat Bennett. She can move just fine. She can still dress herself, and she can even use her fingers to type.
...About a third of children with autism aren't able to speak -- but that doesn't mean they're unable to listen and comprehend, a new study reports.
About 1 in 4 kids and teens who have autism and are minimally verbal understand significantly more language than they're able...
Cutting-edge AI technologies that can detect subtle changes in a person's voice may help doctors diagnose Alzheimer's disease and other cognitive impairments even before other symptoms begin.
Singing may help stroke patients regain communication skills, according to new research.
About 40% of stroke survivors have aphasia, a difficulty to deliver or comprehend spoken or written language. That impairment is ongoing for about half of those patients a year after...
Babies' babble may be smarter than you think.
A new study shows that infants as young as 3- to 5-months of age can tell that the unintelligible sounds they make before they learn to talk can impact the people around them.
Traditionally, this babbling has been regar...
The pandemic has dramatically disrupted kids' normal routines, but a new study suggests the initial lockdowns of 2020 did not necessarily hinder preschoolers' language development.
In fact, researchers found, there was an unanticipated "lockdown boost" in youngsters' voc...
Dogs don't speak a human language, but they do know when you switch from one tongue to another, an intriguing new study finds.
"We know that people, even preverbal human infants, notice the difference," said study co-author Laura Cuaya of Eötvös Loránd University in B...
That sing-song speech parents use when talking to their babies is universal, and infants tend to prefer it.
So, when a baby doesn't seem to engage with this melodic "motherese," or baby talk, it can be an early sign of
You may feel silly doing it, but baby talk helps your infant learn the basics of human language, a new study suggests.
By mimicking the sound of a smaller vocal tract, baby talk<...
Telemedicine may fall short when it comes to people with voice and speech disorders, researchers report.
There was a significant rise in telemedicine use -- health visits using computer, tablet or smartphone video conferencing -- during the COVID-19 pandemic. And even th...
Researchers have developed an implant that allowed a man with severe paralysis to "speak" again by translating his brain signals into text.
The achievement is the latest step in "brain-computer interface" (BCI) research.
Scientists have been studying BCI technology...
Hoarseness is common and there are many causes, an expert says.
"About one-third of us will develop some sort of voice problem in our lifetime," said speech language pathologist Carrie Ruggiero, who sees patients at Penn State Health Lime Spring Outpatient Center in Lanc...
There's a reason you may choose to talk in singsong tones and with exaggerated sounds when you're talking to babies -- they're more likely to listen.
New research shows that babies pay more attention to baby talk than to regular speech. The finding held in many language...
As face masks have become the norm during the coronavirus pandemic, people have learned to communicate more clearly with their mouth covered, new research finds.
For the study, researchers asked participants to record sentences in three speech styles -- casual, clear and...
A rare brain disease that causes loss of language skills doesn't lead to memory loss, a new study finds.
The condition is called primary progressive aphasia and about 40% of people who have it have underlying Alzheimer's disease, according to researchers. Their study was...
On the final night of the 2020 Democratic National Convention, the world heard from an improbable source -- a 13-year-old named Brayden Harrington.
Brayden was invited to speak because he has a frustrating and misunderstood condition that millions of Americans shar...
Teaching parents how to talk to their babies could help boost their children's language development, researchers say.
The University of Washington study didn't look at so-called baby talk, which typically consists of silly sounds and nonsense words.
Instead...
Dementia patients may develop distinct speech and reading problems depending on their native language, a new study finds.
The study included 20 English-speaking and 18 Italian-speaking patients with primary progressive aphasia (PPA), a neurodegenerative disorder that...
For parents of a child with autism, communication is often the No. 1 hurdle. But what if there were a simple way to help them get their youngster talking?
A new study suggests there just might be.
It's called "pivotal response treatment" (PRT). And those ...
Reading the brain waves that control a person's vocal tract might be the best way to help return a voice to people who've lost their ability to speak, a new study suggests.
A brain-machine interface creates natural-sounding synthetic speech by using brain activity to...
Think of it as another example of a refined palate.
The ability to make speech sounds such as "f" and "v" is due to diet-led changes in humans' bite, researchers say.
The range of speech sounds people can make was generally thought to be fixed since modern ...
Just ahead of Sunday's Grammy Awards telecast, new research shows the voice-saving powers of vocal cord surgeries for 18 Grammy Award-winning singers.
Insights gleaned from those procedures may help everyday Americans with vocal cord issues, the research team say.
In a breakthrough straight out of the world of science fiction, a team of researchers has used artificial intelligence (AI) to turn brain signals into computer-generated speech.
The feat was accomplished with the assistance of five epilepsy patients. All had been out...