The fossilised bones of our ancestors remain silent. So, how can we possibly imagine what our earliest languages sounded like?

Fluent English speakers often add sounds between words to link them together. When one word ends with a vowel sound, and the following word begins with a vowel sound, you might hear a subtle /j/ or /w ...

In fact, any letter representing a vowel sound can be pronounced as schwa. For example, the first vowel in the word 'connect' is a schwa sound but it's written with the letter 'o', and the second ...

Abstract: Automatic assessment of dysarthria remains a highly challenging task due to the high heterogeneity in acoustic signals and the limited data. Currently, research on the automatic assessment ...