We all need to learn how to place trust in others. It's easy to be misled. Someone who doesn't deserve trust can appear a lot like someone who does—and part of growing up in a society is developing ...

Over the last few years, we’ve looked into how well people detect accent mimicry. Last year we found that generally speaking, people in the UK and Ireland are strong at this, ...

While accents, and our ability to detect differences in accents, probably evolved to help us place trust more effectively at a broad level, ...

Over the last few years, we’ve looked into how well people detect accent mimicry. Last year we found that generally speaking, people in the UK and Ireland are strong at this, detecting mimicked ...

Likewise, someone growing up in Australia would be better at spotting a mimicked Australian accent than a Brit. So while accents, and our ability to detect differences in accents, probably evolved to ...

“We think that the ability to detect fake accents is linked to an area’s cultural homogeneity, the degree to which its people hold similar cultural values,” he said a statement.

Few things are more frustrating than a speech recognition system that doesn’t understand your accent. Linguistic differences in pronunciation have stumped data scientists for years (a recent ...

Unfamiliar Accents Turn Off Humans And Songbirds Our brains seem to pay better attention to the voice of someone with a familiar accent, according to neuroscientists. It's not clear why the brain ...

Cambridge Consultants has launched a new website which it said can detect accents. The website lets users read a sentence – after asking permission to access their PC’s microphone – and then ...