• University of Freiburg study on vocabulary acquisition uses novel game-based design • Study results: Children of primary school age can benefit from long-term experience with multiple accents when ...

It's a highly frustrating moment talking to a voice assistant that doesn't understand your regional accent. But a new voice assistant launched by the BBC will learn UK regional accents to ensure you ...

September 7, 2014 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google We've all probably tried to learn a new language at some point. Foreign films can help you learn those words ...

Regional accents help All 88 children who participated in the study were German speakers, some of them bilingual or multilingual. The researchers also asked how often per week each child hears ...

Map Your Voice is a neat project that helps you learn any accent by clicking a point on a map and listening to how a person from that area speaks a pre-specified piece of text. If you're curious about ...

Last year, the BBC announced their own voice assistant called Beeb, which would work in a similar way to Amazon’s Alexa and Apple’s Siri. Recently, they have shared some more details about this ...

“Until now, there was a lack of studies on the influence of regional and foreign accents on children's learning of new words,” says Hanulíková. To fill this gap, the researchers had 88 Freiburg ...