ABSTRACT: This study was concerned with the short vowels in modern standard Arabic words with Consonant Vowel-Consonant Vowel-Consonant Vowel (CVCVCV) structure, and the long vowels in words with ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

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AS READERS OF “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” will know, humans are only the third-cleverest species on Earth. The first two places go to mice and dolphins. But perhaps Douglas Adams’s comic ...

Abstract: In Brain Computer Interfacing (BCI), speech imagery is still at nascent stage of development. There are few studies reported considering mostly vowels or monosyllabic words. However, ...

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This software takes UTF-8 Vietnamese orthography and returns UTF-8 output in the International Phonetic Association (IPA) alphabet for three major dialects of Vietnamese: Northern (Hà Nội), Central ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Erik Ofgang is a Connecticut journalist who writes about drinks. The best IPA gold medal winners in various IPA subcategories were ...

If you spend enough time online, you're bound to come come across a sentence like this: "Yr brn cn rd wrds wtht vwls." It looks like nonsense at first glance, but after a moment, you probably read it ...