Speech consists of a continuous stream of acoustic signals, yet humans can segment words from each other with astonishing precision and speed. To find out how this is possible, a team of linguists has ...

Democrats are falling in line to support Vice President Kamala Harris as the party's next presidential nominee after Joe Biden dropped out of the race Sunday. It means you will hear her name said more ...

Do you know your Gearóid from your Gobnait? Your Fearghal from your Muirgheal? To the untrained eye, Irish names can seem like a daunting ambush of rogue consonants and surprise vowels. That’s because ...

These videos show you how to pronounce voiced consonants in English. These sounds are made while vibrating the vocal chords. This is the eighth of eight voiced consonant programmes in our series of ...

The concept of hard and soft consonants primarily affects two elements in English. These are c and g. Both have two pronunciation patterns which can be hard or soft. When c is pronounced as K, as in ...

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Apple's digital assistant Siri is pretty good at pronouncing names correctly, but occasionally one will confound it. Fortunately, you can help ‌Siri‌ say the names of your contacts properly. This ...