If you have a rhotic accent, you pronounce the /r/ sound whenever the letter 'r' appears in a word, like in 'learn', 'better' and 'perfect'. North American accents are usually rhotic, and other ...

Davidson family found 20-million-year-old whale fossil during a beach walk in Australia. Kristina Davidson said, “We spent some time trying to dig it up and look at it.” Whales have existed for over ...

A syllable is a beat of sound in a word. The beat can sometimes be part of a word, or the whole word. For example, the word 'window' has two beats ('win' – 'dow') but the word 'door' had just one ...

As St. Patrick’s Day approaches, you might hear an unfamiliar Irish term get tossed around before the pints get tossed back. Sláinte is a classic Irish toast, and in true St. Paddy’s Day fashion, ...

Whales are a group of mammals that live in oceans. They include some of the largest animals on Earth. The blue whale is the ...

Abstract: The current pronunciation scoring based on Goodness of Pronunciation (GOP) uses posterior probabilities of the Acoustic Models. Such algorithms suffer from generalization since they are ...