Penn Engineers have introduced SmartDJ, an AI tool that edits immersive stereo audio scenes using everyday language prompts, translating broad descriptions into specific, transparent sound ...

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have introduced SmartDJ, an AI-powered audio editor that allows users to reshape immersive soundscapes using plain-language instructions. Unlike earlier ...

Plato's dialogue Cratylus begins with a debate. Socrates is asked whether the sounds of words are simply arbitrary conventions, as Hermogenes suggests, or if sounds are reflective in some way of their ...

English bursts with consonants. We have words that string one after another, like angst, diphthong and catchphrase. But other languages keep more vowels and open sounds. And that variability might be ...