Your voice is a reflection of your physical exertion. A new study identified that physical stress alters pitch, intensity, and pause structures long before a listener might notice.

You are halfway through a job interview, reaching for the right word, and it slips out: “um.” The hiring manager’s eyebrow ...

These are all examples of speech patterns generally assigned to young women and often stereotyped to imply a lack of ...

You probably do it dozens of times a day without thinking: you pause mid-sentence, say “um,” then pick back up. Most ...

The little pauses, “ums,” and moments when you struggle to find the right word may reveal far more about your brain than ...

Stuttering has mystified researchers for centuries, but a new mouse model that mimics speech patterns of humans who stutter has provided researchers with more insight on the disorder. In a study ...

A new artificial intelligence-powered tool aims to detect signs of dementia, Alzheimer’s and other memory disorders by analyzing a person’s speech and language patterns. The system is called ...

We don't usually realize it, but every word we speak depends on a series of complex brain processes working behind the scenes ...

For decades, scientists have known that subtle changes in speech can signal changes in the brain. Using so-called “filler words” such as “um” and “you know” or long pauses are sometimes a quirk of ...

An international team of researchers, including a core group of IBM computer scientists, has successfully tested a machine learning algorithm that can accurately predict whether a person will develop ...