In Mount Rushmore speech, Trump veers from U.S. exceptionalism to warnings about communism

President Trump ushered in America's 250th anniversary with a darkly political speech that swerved from the typically ...

6 presidential speeches that shaped American history

These six presidential speeches are some that have most reverberated through the ages, and whose impacts are still felt today ...
Psychology Today

Um, Actually: The Hidden Purpose of Hesitation in Speech

Think saying um and uh makes you sound unprepared? These tiny hesitation words play an important role in how we think, speak, and communicate.

‘Don’t Mess With a Comedic Rapper’: How Afroman Became a Free-Speech Hero

Afroman, the rapper famous for "Because I Got High," talks the police raid on his home and viral defamation trial that made ...

Linguistic reason Barbie's iconic speech became a cultural moment, and what Aristotle has to do with it

Everyone remembers where they were when Gloria lost it. The Barbie movie's big speech—America Ferrera, voice breaking, listing every single impossible thing the world expects women to be—hit something ...
IEEE

Exploring the Use of Large Language Models and Interpretable Features for Explainable Speech Emotion Recognition

Abstract: Speech emotion recognition (SER) has made significant advancements in recent years due to its critical role in human-computer interaction. However, current studies pre dominantly rely on ...
IEEE

End-to-End Target Speaker Speech Recognition Using Context-Aware Attention Mechanisms for Challenging Enrollment Scenario

Abstract: This paper presents a novel streaming end-to-end target-speaker speech recognition that addresses two critical limitations in systems: the handling of noisy enrollment utterances and ...