Learning to speak

Learning to Speak : Speech Production and Sensori

This chapter describes how an artiicial device, able to produce acoustic signals from articulatory motion, can learn to speak, i.e. coordinate its articulatory movements in such a way that it utters meaningful sequences of sounds belonging to a given language. This complex learning procedure, accomplished within a few years by the human child, is simulated in four major steps: (a) a babbling ph...

Learning to Speak: a Connectionist Approach to Sentence Production By

Listen, Interact and Talk: Learning to Speak via Interaction

One of the long-term goals of artificial intelligence is to build an agent that can communicate intelligently with human in natural language. Most existing work on natural language learning relies heavily on training over a pre-collected dataset with annotated labels, leading to an agent that essentially captures the statistics of the fixed external training data. As the training data is essent...

Learning to speak. Sensori-motor control of speech movements

This paper shows how an articulatory model, able to produce acoustic signals from articulatory motion, can learn to speak, i.e. coordinate its movements in such a way that it utters meaningful sequences of sounds belonging to a given language. This complex learning procedure is accomplished in four major steps: (a) a babbling phase, where the device builds up a model of the forward transforms, ...

Speak to me, melody

Music, more than any other art form, can raise the human spirit to the heights of joy or plunge it into the depths of sorrow. Yet, the power of music to influence our emotions, regardless of age or cultural background, has left philos ophers, scholars and musicians baffled; perhaps unsurprisingly, given the inevitable subject ivity of the phenomenon (Fig 1). In the late twentieth century, biolo...