Vowels aren’t really necessary in today’s digital age, are they? Twitter doesn’t think so, as it announced a new “two-tiered” service including its free model called “Twttr.” You can only tweet ...

The secret physics at the core of every syllable, starting with the first words we speak. Human language is an incredible thing: a combination of mouth sounds that we combine into words, sentences, ...

When we're nervous giving a speech, we often speak too fast. Slow yourself down by pausing on the vowels. Over at Ragan, they've got some tips on remembering to slow down. Use vowels as a pacing cue: ...

Listen closely to those baboon calls. They may tell you a thing or two about human speech. Scientists who studied baboons’ wahoos, yaks, barks and other vocalizations have found evidence of five vowel ...

[Youchun Zhang] and [Annie (Wei) Dai] found a way to differentiate vowel sounds using an ATmega644 as their final project for a microcontroller design class. Voice recognition is not out of the ...

A license plate on a Cadillac CTS-V spelling "sleeper," the term for a car who's outward appearance is normal but has had extensive performance modifications, at Friday Night Drags presented by Maaco ...