The Economist

A language-teaching app tests tongues with Zulu and Xhosa

IN 1991 AMERICAN audiences had an introduction to Xhosa, one of South Africa’s most click-filled languages, when Miriam Makeba (pictured) appeared on “The Cosby Show”. When the celebrated South ...
VentureBeat

Alexa scientists teach AI language models new tongues with transfer learning

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Adding support for a new language to a voice assistant like Alexa isn’t ...
CNN

I lost my mother tongue -- and almost my mom

(CNN)It was only fitting that just three days after UNESCO celebrated International Mother Language Day, Spanish was spoken at the 91st Academy Awards. "Ya se puede hablar español en los Oscars," ...
Washingtonian

This Film Festival Focuses on How Language Affects Storytelling

Joshua Bell, a curator at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History, says that many people still consider monolingualism to be the norm. He and his team hope to dispel that myth ...