A baby step for computer learning

[Wien Ee]

Infants still have a chubby leg up on the best supercomputers when it comes to picking up languages, but now researchers have created a program that can teach itself to distinguish vowel sounds like those in "train" and "bed." The software, the first to figure out vowel categories from human sounds, lends credence to the notion that language is more learned than innate.


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