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prosody

[pros-uh-dee] / ˈprɒs ə di /
NOUN
versification
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STRONG


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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

If a brain-computer interface could re-create someone’s speech with the inherent prosody and emotional weight found in music, it could reconstruct far more than just words.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 15, 2023

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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