Two new studies have found eerily human-like sophistication in whale songs, challenging notions about our exceptionality and potentially shedding light on the evolution of language. Some whales can ...

The mechanisms behind the development of human language are one of the great mysteries of primate evolution. Biologists have identified certain genes that play a role in human speech and are ...

There’s a strange new study from the University of Florida that has linguists and grammarians talking – about words. For a while now, we’ve been so laser-focused on the Turing test, the idea that AI ...

For centuries, scientists have wondered what makes human speech unique. Why can we hold conversations while our closest relatives, like Neanderthals, could not? New research may have uncovered a key ...

As AI blurs the boundary between real and synthetic voices, researchers are innovating technologies to distinguish human-based speech from AI-generated media. The GAME School hosted the Proof of ...

Neural recordings from parrots and songbirds reveal the ways in which vocal production is encoded in the brain, highlighting remarkable similarities between how parrots and humans learn to produce ...

Putting the uniquely human version of a certain gene into mice changed the way that those animals vocalized to each other, suggesting that this gene may play a role in speech and language. Mice make a ...