“In this lecture, Clifford Nass describes how the human brain and body are “wired” for speech: The sound of a voice, whether from a person or machine, causes us to respond as we respond to actual people and to behave as we could in any social situation. In addition, Nass will discuss the speech interactions between humans and machines.”

“The speech accent archive uniformly presents a large set of speech samples from a variety of language backgrounds. Native and non-native speakers of English read the same paragraph and are carefully transcribed. The archive is used by people who wish to compare and analyze the accents of different English speakers.”

>>LINK

“Dave Haynes is UK manager for SoundCloud, a cloud-based music platform that allows music professionals to easily distribute, share and stream audio over the web. With over a decades experience in the music industry, Daves career has moved from selling good old fashioned records to focusing on the latest trends in digital music.”

Just stumbled upon this cool service called ipadio. It basically allows you to broadcast live to the internet from your phone. Of course it is integrated with a number of  social platforms like Facebook.

Apps for the iPhone & Android Platform are also available.

Thnx to Erica for bringing it to my attention.

Science & The Sound Of Music – 8 Parts

Talk by Professor Charles A. Taylor / University College Cardiff.

Old recording - still some interesting stuff.

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