Sound and Light Reflections

It is that time of year again for students and parents - time for signing students up for summer camps! The South Carolina Governor's...

Northwestern researchers Alexandra Parbery-Clark, Dana Strait, Samira Anderson, Emily Hittner and Nina Kraus have published a journal articl...

The National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI-Y) program offered by the US Government's Department of State offers merit-bas...

I don't even know this gentleman, but I confess that I have to like him just based on his introduction to this excellent website: This ...

A colleague and former student of mine, Detective Phil Manchester (UK), wrote an excellent article earlier this year titled " An Introd...

A former forensic crime lab technician turned professional photographer named Angela Strassheim has used her fascination with crime scenes t...

What can a group of engineers and a musician do with a computer, a sound card, a bunch of dancers, a singer, and a bucket of conductive pain...

Voice Risk Analysis (VRA) has always been viewed skeptically by many in the speech field. This technique takes Voice Stress Analysis - i.e. ...

One of my favorite websites, lifehacker, has an article based around material by Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig, the electronic archivist for the Smi...

I would like to pass along the following announcement: The National Center for Media Forensics at the University of Colorado Denver will be...

The BBC (center-left news, United Kingdom) reports on research at King's College London that has tentatively identified a gene that cau...

A woman in the United Kingdom is suffering from Foreign Accent Syndrome - a rare condition caused by damage to the brain that results in cha...

The title of this post says it all - the writers at Jezebel (a celebrity news for women) wrote about it first. See for yourself. Enjoy!

Here is a fun website with lots of puzzles - from easy to hard - involving linguistics.  Enjoy! (Hat Tip: SiliconValley.com , USA, techno...

Speech scientists have long known that seeing individuals can, even unconsciously, use lip-reading to assist in decoding words spoken in a c...