I recently went to the last town in the world that still speaks Old English and I was shocked by how much I could speak and understand. Well okay, it’s not exactly Old English, it’s a rare language ...

Despite the vast differences in human and bee brains, both of us can do mathematics. As we argue in a new paper published in ...

What makes a place exotic? Think landscapes you can barely imagine, wildlife found nowhere else, and cultures so distinct ...

A major claim in the older media cycle was that NASA removed the book and related materials. Whatever happened during the original wave of reporting, the current reality is clear: NASA now provides an ...

Abstract: Large-scale pre-trained models have become common for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) tasks. They utilize large-scale, multilingual datasets to learn acoustic features and then are ...

Simon Rodway receives funding from Leverhulme Foundation. He is affiliated with Plaid Cymru. The Celtic languages spoken today – namely Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Manx, Welsh, Cornish and Breton – all ...

Mark Wallace, the owner of the Rex Bar in Belfast’s Shankill Road, knows just two phrases in Irish. The first is “Shankill” – which comes from the word Seanchille, or “the old church”. The second ...

Abstract: This work uses deep learning and advanced audio features to detect Indian spoken languages. Using pre-trained models such as wav2vec, data2vec, and ccc-wav2vec, we retrieved the feature ...