I can look at phonetics and phonology — speech sounds.

我可以研究语音学和音韵学——还有语音。

That's where the brain attaches meaning to speech sounds.

这里大脑把意思和声音所联系起来地方。

That's easy for our...auditory system, if you think of speech sounds.

对听觉系统来说这很容易——如果你想到语音音素。

Speech sounds are made by air moving outward through the mouth or nose.

声音通过气流从嘴巴或鼻腔流出产生。

But first we need to talk a bit about how speech sounds are made.

但首先我们需要谈论一下声音如何产生。

Fifer wants to see how one-day-old Liliana responds to speech sounds generated by different voices.

菲想看看一天大莉莉亚娜对不同说话声如何。

And the more years study subjects played instruments, the faster their brains responded to speech sound.

该研究调查对象中接触乐器时间越长人，大脑对演讲声音力也较迅速一些。

Scientists have already discovered similar associations between speech sounds and the size of objects and even taste.

科学家们已经发现了语音与物体大小甚至味道之间相似联系。

This will make you written work and your speech sound more interesting.

这将使您书面作业和演讲听起来更有趣。

One of the speech sounds -- they -- exists in English but not in French.

其中一种语音——它们——存在于英语中，但不存在于法语中。

" It's like an alphabet of speech sounds, " David Moses, the project manager, said.

“这就像一个语音字母表，”项目经理大卫·摩西说。

That's easy for our ... auditory system, if you think of speech sounds.

克劳斯： 这对我们来说很容易...听觉系统，如果你想到语音。

That's when someone will hear the same speech sounds differently, based on how the person saying them is moving their lips.

也就说，根据说话者移动嘴唇方式，一个人听到同一个演讲时声音会有所不同。

So you put things on loops in order to fine tune the way the speech sounds.

所以你把事情放在循环中，以便微调语音声音。

If their speech sounds slurred or strange, it could mean that the language area of their brain is oxygen-deprived.

如果他们讲话听起来含糊不清或奇怪，则可意味着他们大脑语言区域缺氧。

For one experiment, she and her team recruited native English speakers and native French speakers to listen to speech sounds.

在一项实验中，她和她团队招募了以英语为母语人和以法语为母语人来听语音。

The common pronunciation of ask as aks is an example of metathesis in which two speech sounds are allowed in flexible order.

ask 常见发音为 aks 一个元分解例子，其中允许以灵活顺序排列两个语音。

The team also reported more success synthesizing slower speech sounds like " sh, " and less success with harder sounds like " b" or " p" .

该研究团队在报告中还指出，在合成较慢语速语音表达时，成功率更高，如" sh" ，而在合成" b" 或者" p" 等更难语音表达时，成功率则更低。

It's pretty astounding at faking  what human speech sounds like, but humans are still the only computers that  can create the thoughts behind the words.

伪造人类语言声音非常惊人，但人类仍然唯一够在语言背后创造思想计算机。

Part of our research has to do with helping to understand the roots of, of language reception and how it is that babies begin to understand speech sounds.

我们部分研究得有助于人们理解语言接受根源和婴儿开始认识说话声音过程。