Speech and Language Processing

Speech and Language Processing

A survey of 1,004 #UK #journalists reveals that over half use #AI professionally at least weekly, primarily for #languageprocessing tasks like transcription and translation. However, AI is also used for substantive tasks such as #storyresearch and #ideageneration. AI use is more common among younger, male journalists. https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/ai-adoption-uk-journalists-and-their-newsrooms-surveying-applications-approaches-and-attitudes?eicker.news #tech #media #news
AI adoption by UK journalists and their newsrooms: surveying applications, approaches, and attitudes

Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
🗣️ Natural Language Processing is changing how we interact with technology in 2025! From chatbots that truly understand context to real-time translation that breaks language barriers, NLP is making AI more human than ever. The future speaks all languages! 🌍✨ #NLP #AI2025 #LanguageProcessing #ConversationalAI

#science #cognition #CogSci #language #LanguageProcessing #AudioVisual #AudioVisualProcessing

Please boost for reach, and please participate if you both see and hear well enough on the right and left. I promise it will be quick and easy and fun.

In this video, there are occasionally two singers singing something different at the same time. One comes through the right audio channel, the other through the left audio channel. Please follow along at the bottom of the screen. Do note that the left-audio lyrics are on the right and the right-audio lyrics are on the left.

Question: Do you find it slightly harder to read/process when the corresponding visual input is on the opposite side of the auditory input?

Bonus question: Please state what, if any, neurodivergence(s) you might have.

Please wear headphones for this experiment. It won't work otherwise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN_qt5QlKQU

Google Translate Sings: "We Don't Talk About Bruno" ft. Caleb Hyles (PARODY)

YouTube
Deciphering language processing in the human brain through LLM representations

New paper in #Constructions: "Constructional #LanguageProcessing and #LanguageLearning starting from unsegmented linguistic #input" by Veronica Juliana Schmalz, Lara Verheyen & Jens Nevens https://doi.org/10.24338/cons-684
Constructional language processing and learning starting from unsegmented linguistic input | Constructions

Human brain can process certain sentences in ‘blink of an eye’, says study

Researchers say findings differ from previous theories that words are understood one by one

The Guardian
IIT Gandhinagar Unveils Ganga-1B: A Powerful Pre-Trained Hindi Language Model

IIT Gandhinagar releases Ganga-1B, a pre-trained large language model for Hindi, outperforming all open-source models up to 7B in size. Developed from scratch with a highly curated Hindi dataset, Ganga-1B is a significant advancement in Indic language AI.

Tech Chill
Study finds timing of brain waves shapes the words we hear

The timing of our brain waves shapes how we perceive our environment. We are more likely to perceive events when their timing coincides with the timing of relevant brain waves. Lead scientist Sanne ten Oever and her co-authors set out to determine whether neural timing also shapes speech perception. Is the probability of speech sounds or words encoded in our brain waves and is this information used to recognize words?

Medical Xpress

According to a recent study, dogs may possess a mental representation of words that correspond to specific objects. This means that when dogs hear a word that they have learned is associated with a particular object, their brain activity suggests that they are not merely reacting to the sound of the word, but are actually recalling a mental image of that object.

#Dogs #MentalRepresentation #LanguageProcessing

https://www.technologynetworks.com/neuroscience/news/brain-activity-study-finds-dogs-understand-words-for-objects-385055

Brain Activity Study Finds Dogs Understand Words for Objects

It’s no surprise that your dog can learn to sit when you say “sit” and come when called. But a study has made the unexpected discovery that dogs generally also know that certain words “stand for” certain objects.

Technology Networks