It is a conventional wisdom in the speech community that better speech recognition accuracy is a good indicator for better spoken language understanding accuracy, given a fixed understanding component ...

When people talk face to face, they don’t rely on words alone. They move their hands, raise their eyebrows, or nod to help ...

This Juneteenth, which celebrates the end of slavery in the United States, you can take part in some of the many events ...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced Thursday that the Tabernacle Choir's weekly broadcast will now be airing on Telemundo Utah at 5 p.m. Sundays in Spanish.

Editor’s note: “The Spoken Word” is shared by Derrick Porter each Sunday during the weekly Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square broadcast. This will be given Sunday, June 8, 2025. This week is No. 4,995 ...

State legislators were stunned during a late-night budget debate when a veteran Republican lawmaker stood up and read graphic references to the female anatomy from a school library book.

With tears in his eyes before he could even speak a word, New England Patriots' two-time Super Bowl champion and eight-time captain, center David Andrews, delivered his speech at his retirement ...

Anyone living here should at least be able to understand some of the language spoken around them. Here’s a short list of some typical and lovely expressions from the local dialect.

This paper describes neural ConfNet classification, a novel fully neural network based spoken utterance classification method that uses word confusion networks (ConfNets). Our motivation is to ...