Video: Researchers have created an artificial tongue to help them find out more about how a mouth produces sounds.
Watch a video of the artificial tongue
THE pink, fleshy tongue curls up and down inside the bare skull’s jaws as it talks, as if mouthing a silent prayer. This is no excerpt from a bad horror film, but an animatronic tongue designed to improve the accuracy of speech-recognition software.
“The tongue is designed to improve speech-recognition software”
Existing systems are only reliable if people talk in a steady, uniform manner. In reality, speech varies depending on where you are and…
