prosody
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“Everyone flattens ideas into a tiny text box for AI, and Olive’s patented model training retains the prosody and turn-taking in a voice exchange to reveal uncompressed intent that a frontier model needs,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Other parameters come into play, such as prosody, which includes pauses, accentuation and intonation.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 19, 2023
This juxtaposition is far from coincidental, as the researchers' experiments revealed that dog brains respond in the same positive ways to exaggerated prosody as our very own infants.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2023
He rejects Chomsky’s theory of a “language organ” in the brain and instead takes up Darwin’s emphasis on prosody — the notion that the melody and rhythms of speech are what move us toward language.
From New York Times ● Feb. 10, 2021
A single stressed syllable, then a trochee, then a dactyl, for prosody nerds.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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