Can birds have… accents?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Zebra finches are tiny songbirds. Each sings a unique tune. Scientists long thought those differences were just individual flair… until now. Enter Daiping Wang and team from Max Planck Institute in Germany. They let machine
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Talk to the hand… nooo really, talk to the hand. This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Learning a new language is HARD! Thankfully, new apps can translate words in real time. But what about American Sign Language? Enter Jun Chen and colleagues from the University
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What do you picture when you hear… “WILMAAA!!?” This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. When describing a scene, humans create a visual image of it in their mind’s eye. Could computers do the same? Meet Tanmay Gupta and researchers from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
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