When Yuval Noah Harari writes about something, it is as if the world’s conscience is speaking. When Russia invaded Ukraine…
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OpenAI, the artificial intelligence (AI) research company behind ChatGPT and the DALL-E 2 art generator, has unveiled the highly anticipated…
The buzz around artificial intelligence (AI) technologies like ChatGPT is palpable. People are both optimistic and frightened by the possibilities of these tools. Clearly,…
The people behind the popular language-learning app, Duolingo, have decided to take language learning beyond the app. Well, that’s the…
Live transcription features are becoming increasingly saturated across most of the platforms we use — Facebook, YouTube, and even video…
Everyone’s got a story about a voice assistant (like Google Assistant) completely mishearing something they said to it, mostly when…
Microsoft has purchased speech-recognition firm Nuance for the princely sum of $16 billion — basically, at $56 (R820) a share.…
Hashtags are a pervasive feature of social media posts and used widely in search engines. Anything with the intent of…
Research shows that students are motivated to learn language through watching foreign language television programs. In the world of professional sports, baseball players, ice-hockey players and football managers have also claimed that television was a key resource for their language development.
Journalist Eve Livingston’s recent article for The Face examines the many social and cultural features of Scottish Twitter. But the fact it has provided a medium for written Scots language to evolve in a way that wasn’t possible before the advent of social media is equally fascinating.