Hacker News with Generative AI: Speech

Can Parrot Brains Teach Us About Human Speech? (smithsonianmag.com)
Parrots have long fascinated humans with their ability to mimic speech, but new research reveals their brains do more than just imitate—they use complex neural systems that parallel the way humans produce speech.
Every internet fight is a speech fight (pluralistic.net)
Every internet fight is a speech fight: And every internet fight is a sovereignty fight.
Word-initial consonants are systematically lengthened across diverse languages (phys.org)
Speech consists of a continuous stream of acoustic signals, yet humans can segment words from each other with astonishing precision and speed.