How do our brains process speech? - Gareth Gaskell
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The average 20-year-old knows between 27,000 and 52,000 different words. Spoken out loud, most of these words last less than a second. With every word, the brain has a quick decision to make: which of those thousands of options matches the signal? And about 98% of the time, the brain chooses the correct word. How is this possible? Gareth Gaskell digs into the complexities of speech comprehension.
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Speech perception and production are the primary mechanisms for human communication. Could they be improved with future technology? If so, how?
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YiTing Hsu
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I believe that speech perception and production are the core of human communication, and future technology has the potential to improve these processes. Advancements in speech processing technology can also help us better understand different languages and dialects, enhancing communication efficiency.
Harry Connerty
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I think they could improved with future technology by making other speech perceptions and production primary mechanisms for human communications.
YuHan J
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I hold a firm belif that technology will make a huge difference to our life.I think it's possible for technology to change the way and means of communication.
ALEXIS STUMBAUGH
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Good question, the answer would be yes. because when we use new words by learning, then we might be able to recognize new words from one to another.
Epi Sete
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Depending on how they improve it. But if they do try to improve it, it would probably make people more confused if they were already used to what they learned before.
Lashanti Adams
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Many people can find new things with knowing by the sleeping brain or non sleeping brain. People learn new things everyday that's becoming more common with technology.
minseo kim
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with a different tone of speech/level, we can create a device that allows you to help manage your tone to a more respectable, and understandable tone.Since this is more of a futuristic question, if people wanted to make this new technology, they would have to take months, maybe years, to achieve their goal
Monica Provezza
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I agree that speech production are the prime mechanisms for human communication.
In the future I believe that they could not be better because in our years technology has made great steps forward and certainly will make others but I believe that as regards communication through technology it could make small steps forward but not so essential to improve communication.
Madina Jakhongirova
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I personally think that it`s really hard to reproduce work of brain artificially because too many mechanisms are going on brain at the same tame, it is work of millions neurons simultaneously. Of course technologies develop too fast and who knows what can achieve humanity after 20 or 30 years but as I said earlier it is difficult to reproduce perception and production.
Sasha Nibbs
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No, machines can't act just like the brain.They might one day, but that doesn't mean that they can give knowledge like when the brain learns knowledge.
