Students at R. Brown McAllister Elementary School use exercises in phonemic awareness—the ability to recognize and manipulate the sounds in English—during literary instruction on March 19, 2025, in ...

The latest starry revival of Samuel Beckett’s play is on Broadway, and one thing is certain: Whatever you call its elusive ...

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Abstract: When applied for phoneme recognition, the Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) objective function allows a neural network to be trained with the phoneme level transcriptions of ...

Abstract: Objective: Speech brain-computer interfaces (speech BCIs), which convert brain signals into spoken words or sentences, have demonstrated great potential for high-performance BCI ...

Texas city names are notoriously hard to pronounce. From medium-level difficulty towns like "Boerne" to expert-level areas like "Nacogdoches," it's easy to doubt your ability to understand English.

The record holder for having the world's longest name says it takes a whopping 20 minutes to read his full moniker aloud – and he's only ever heard it once. For ease, Laurence tends to go by just his ...

You write that “California Learns From Mississippi” (Review & Outlook, Sept. 27) on phonics, but I fear you give too much credit to Golden State legislators. Assembly Bill 2222, proposed in 2024, ...

At Gilles-Sweet Elementary in Fairview Park, Ohio, kindergarten teacher Keri Laughlin combines movement and phonics to help her students build the foundational literacy skills they’ll need as readers.

Languages are either syllable-timed, where all the syllables in a word last for the same amount of time, even when syllables are stressed, or stress-timed, where stressed syllables are pronounced at ...

This was the humorous remark of some Filipinos after Eraserheads vocalist Ely Buendia responded to comments made by podcasters Baus Rufo and Macoy Dubs regarding the pronunciation of his surname. In ...

Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...