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·September 8, 2025·3 min read

Biofeedback Speeds Up Speech Therapy for Struggling Kids

A large-scale clinical trial tested biofeedback-based therapy for children with residual speech sound disorder, a condition where pronunciation errors persist past age eight. Biofeedback methods—like ultrasound imaging or acoustic displays—gave children visual cues to adjust their tongue movements, accelerating progress with difficult sounds such as “r.”

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·August 29, 2025·4 min read

AI Speech Model Detects Neurological Disorders With 92% Accuracy

A new AI framework can detect neurological disorders by analyzing speech with over 90% accuracy. The model, called CTCAIT, captures subtle patterns in voice that may indicate early symptoms of diseases like Parkinson’s, Huntington’s, and Wilson disease.

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·August 23, 2025·4 min read

Human Speech Follows a Universal Rhythm Every 1.6 Seconds

A large cross-linguistic study has revealed that human speech worldwide follows a universal rhythm, with intonation units appearing roughly every 1.6 seconds. These rhythmic chunks structure conversation, helping listeners track meaning, take turns, and absorb information.

This shows a man in a neurotech headset covered in words, implying this tech can interpret inner speech.

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·August 14, 2025·5 min read

“Mind-Reading” Tech Decodes Inner Speech With Up to 74% Accuracy

Scientists have, for the first time, decoded inner speech—silent thoughts of words—on command using brain-computer interface technology, achieving up to 74% accuracy. By recording neural activity from participants with severe paralysis, the team found that inner speech and attempted speech share overlapping brain activity patterns, though inner speech signals are weaker.

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·July 16, 2025·5 min read

How Your Brain Strings Words Together

Speaking requires a precise sequence of muscle movements, long thought to be coordinated by Broca’s area in the brain. New research reveals that a different region, the middle precentral gyrus (mPrCG), plays a key role in planning and executing speech sequences.

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·May 7, 2025·5 min read

Why Noisy Rooms Are Harder for Some Brains to Handle

New research reveals that the insula, a key brain region, shows altered connectivity in people who struggle to understand speech in noisy environments. Using resting-state MRI, scientists found that the left insula works harder even when the brain is not actively processing sound, suggesting a permanent rewiring linked to hearing difficulties.

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·April 22, 2025·4 min read

Gestures Help Listeners Predict Speech

Humans use hand gestures during conversation, but until now, it wasn’t clear whether listeners actively use these gestures to anticipate speech. A new study using virtual avatars shows that listeners indeed use iconic gestures—like miming typing—to predict what the speaker will say next.

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·March 7, 2025·4 min read

How the Brain Processes Speech in Real Time

Researchers have developed a computational framework that maps how the brain processes speech during real-world conversations. Using electrocorticography (ECoG) and AI speech models, the study analyzed over 100 hours of brain activity, revealing how different regions handle sounds, speech patterns, and word meanings. The findings show that the brain processes language in a sequence—moving from thought to speech before speaking and working backward to interpret spoken words.

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·March 3, 2025·5 min read

How the Brain Transforms Speech Pitch into Meaning

A new study reveals that Heschl’s gyrus, once thought to only process sound, actually plays a crucial role in interpreting speech melody, or prosody. Researchers tracked brain activity in epilepsy patients with implanted electrodes and found that this region encodes pitch accents as meaningful linguistic signals, separate from word sounds.

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·February 18, 2025·8 min read

Genetic Link Between Humans and the Evolution of Speech Found

New research suggests a genetic variant in the NOVA1 protein may have played a key role in the emergence of human speech. Scientists introduced this exclusively human variant into mice and observed altered vocalizations, indicating a potential role in vocal communication.

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·December 17, 2024·4 min read

Baby Babble Syncs With Heartbeats to Shape Speech Development

Infants' heart rate rhythms are closely linked to their early vocalizations, including coos, babbles, and emerging words. Researchers found that babies were most likely to produce sounds when their heart rate reached a peak or trough, with speech-like sounds occurring during heart rate deceleration.

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·October 6, 2024·3 min read

Hearing Loss Disrupts Speech Coordination

A recent study reveals that hearing plays a vital role in coordinating speech movements. Researchers found that when individuals briefly couldn't hear their own speech, their ability to control their jaw and tongue movements declined.

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Biofeedback Speeds Up Speech Therapy for Struggling Kids

AI Speech Model Detects Neurological Disorders With 92% Accuracy

Human Speech Follows a Universal Rhythm Every 1.6 Seconds

“Mind-Reading” Tech Decodes Inner Speech With Up to 74% Accuracy

How Your Brain Strings Words Together

Why Noisy Rooms Are Harder for Some Brains to Handle

Gestures Help Listeners Predict Speech

How the Brain Processes Speech in Real Time

How the Brain Transforms Speech Pitch into Meaning

Genetic Link Between Humans and the Evolution of Speech Found

Baby Babble Syncs With Heartbeats to Shape Speech Development

Hearing Loss Disrupts Speech Coordination

PET Tracer Maps Synapse Loss After Spinal Cord Injury

Stress Relief Brain Circuit May Drive Alcohol Relapse

Your Words May Reveal More Than You Think: AI Shows How

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