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A new study with a language-trained chimp suggests that when it comes to understanding speech, the basic equipment might already have been present in our apelike ancestors.
"There's been so much attention paid to understanding speech and song that we've really ignored this much more innate vocalization until now," says Tecumseh Fitch, an evolutionary biologist and cognitive scientist at the University of Austria, who was not involved in the work.
Exposed teenagers performed worse across every sound frequency tested, especially those frequencies vital to understanding speech.
This allows them to function like biological synapses and makes them ideal for many artificial intelligence applications ranging from machine vision to understanding speech.
This makes them function like biological synapses, which would be ideal for many artificial intelligence applications ranging from machine vision to understanding speech.
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For example, some NLP service providers are better at understanding speech relating to movies, music and media, while others are better at numbers, etc.
Some children with school difficulties report increased susceptibility to distraction, trouble understanding speech in the presence of a competing background noise, following rapid speech and talking on the phone.
Faster, cheaper computers and increasingly clever software, the authors say, are giving machines capabilities that were once thought to be distinctively human, like understanding speech, translating from one language to another and recognizing patterns.
Decreased cognitive skills concurrent with reduced perceptual acuity are thought to contribute to the difficulty older adults experience understanding speech in noise.
This also implies that even a few dB of elevated SRT in HI listeners can cause substantial problems understanding speech compared to NH listeners.
The capability of processing rapid fluctuations in the temporal envelope of sound declines with age and this contributes to older adults' difficulties in understanding speech.
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