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US President Donald Trump sparked a language-related controversy last week. He commended his Liberian counterpart, Joseph Boakai, for speaking what he ...
With 50 states in the US it can be hard to remember all of them, and even harder to remember their pronunciations. A recent ...
IMS Toucan is a toolkit for training, using, and teaching state-of-the-art Text-to-Speech Synthesis, developed at the Institute for Natural Language Processing (IMS), University of Stuttgart, Germany, ...
Praat: doing phonetics by computer Welcome to Praat! Praat is a speech analysis tool used for doing phonetics by computer. Praat can analyse, synthesize, and manipulate speech, and create high-quality ...
Tongue twisters are not just fun, they are speech improvement tools. They help improve clarity and cognitive processing.
Discover the 20 U.S. state names that are commonly mispronounced, from Arkansas to Massachusetts. Learn the correct ...
On June 20, Vancouver city officials and members of the Musqueam Indian Band gathered in Kitsilano for the official renaming ...
Use consonant and vowel patterns: Consider the usual arrangements of consonants and vowels in words. For example, consonants often surround vowels, and certain consonants tend to appear together (e.g.
A Handbook of Phonetics by Henry Sweet Publication date 1877 Topics vowels, consonants, vowel, tongue, formed, consonant, glide, sound, pronunciation, sounds, broad romic, mixed vowels, long vowels, ...
Wordle answer today June 16 got players buzzing. Puzzle #1458 brings a mix of wordplay and nostalgia, with the answer, a nod to the late music legend Tom Petty. With a double “T,” one vowel, and a ...