Abstract: Lip-syncing of android robots resembling people is essential to accurately convey their intentions to humans. In this paper, we develop a system of Korean lip-syncing, with the assumption ...

Do you say car-a-mel or car-mel? Is your “fire” closer to fah-yer or fayr? There is a group of words in English that can be pronounced with two different syllable structures, depending on dialect, ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Dialect is often seen as a static feature of personality, but research shows that a person’s dialect (as well as the dialect itself) usually evolves ...

Dialect is often seen as a static feature of personality, but research shows that a person’s dialect (as well as the dialect itself) usually evolves over time. Scientists from the University of ...

‘Gabriel’ in English isn’t the same as ‘Gabriel’ in Spanish, and ‘Ángel’ isn’t just ‘angel.’ With Spanish names, there’s often an English version spelled the same as (or very similar to) the Spanish ...

She has gone the full Bernard Bresslaw. A horrible year in office has tarred Rachel Reeves’s voice. It is deeper, more adenoidal. In her conference speech she kept honking: ‘Don’t tell me there is no ...

level The Sounds of English: Diphthongs - 1 Episode 1 / 01 Jan 2023 This is the first of eight diphthong programmes in our series of videos that explore the sounds of English.

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Barbaadi The Sounds of English level Diphthongs - Programme 2 Episode 14 / 11 May 2018 What sound do these words have in common? tour pure cure This is the 2nd diphthong programme in our series of ...