Hands Speak Like a Mouth...

A simple hands-off method for converting a biliary drain from mouth to nose.

is a widely used technique for bile duct decompression. It also provides access to the bile duct and allows cholangiography to be repeated. After placement, the drainage tube is left exiting from the mouth and re−routing via one of the nos− trils is necessary. Conventionally, a naso− pharyngeal tube, which is used as a carri− er, is advanced into the patient’s nose and into the posterior pharyn...

SPEAK: a speech synthesis system

Humanoid Robots That Behave, Speak, and Think Like Humans: A Reduction to Practice RRC-Humanoid Robot

A radical new approach is presented to programming human-like levels of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into a humanoid robot equipped with a verbal-phoneme sound generator. The system shares 3 important characteristics with human-like input data and processing: 1) The raw data and preliminary processing of the raw data are human-like. 2) All the data are subjective, that is related and correlated...

Learning to Speak Like Girls and Boys : A Developmental Study in Gender and Narrative Style

This study investigated whether or not gender-based differences are evident in the language (North American English) children use to tell a story. An equal number of boys and girls representing 3 developmental stages (7;2, 10;10, and 13;8) were asked to perform a 3 part guided narrative task, which involved telling 3 stories from 2 wordless picture books. The language of the first and third nar...

Bubble speak

almost impossible even to ask many of these questions clearly without understanding statistics and computational approaches. And these problems require ever-sharper experimental tools, many of which will come from exploiting highly specific chemical reactions and interactions. What are the main challenges you see for the biomedical science community? We are tackling more genomes, ever more prot...