How Speech is More Than The Words We Speak | Andrew Rosenberg | TEDxCUNY

Why do we often allow our speech to trail off at the end of a sentence? What is the science behind our ability to process language? Join Andrew Rosenberg as he shares with us the relationship between computers and the human voice, and lets us in on how we understand each other's words.
Andrew Rosenberg is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Queens College, and a member of the Doctoral Faculty of the Computer Science and Linguistics programs at the CUNY Graduate Center. He leads the Speech Lab @ Queens College,
and is a a NSF CAREER Award winner. His research concerns Natural Language Processing, Spoken Language Processing, Prosody/Intonation and Machine Learning. He completed his Ph.D. at Columbia University.
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