The Kansai Vibes voice filter brings vibrant regional Japanese dialects—like those from Kansai, a south-central region of Japan known for its expressive speech and major cities like Osaka and Kyoto—to ...

More than a century after colonisation, the Ainu language almost vanished. Now machines are listening to hours of old recordings and learning to give it a new voice.

Japan Will Spend $6.3 Billion to Shield Its Economy From Trump’s Tariffs Lawmakers approved a plan to help companies and consumers as officials bargain in Washington for relief from debilitating ...

Discover Japanese dialects (hōgen), their regional linguistic variations, cultural importance, and differences in vocabulary and pronunciation.

In recent years, the accuracy of automatic speech recognition (ASR) for major languages has been greatly improved by pre-training methods using large spoken language resources. However, practical ASR ...

The two nations are trying to give a new lease of life to languages on the brink of extinction, but it remains to be seen if these efforts will bear fruit.

CLDF Dataset derived from Hattori's "Japanese Dialects" from 1973 How to cite If you use these data please cite the original source Hattori, S. (1973): Japanese dialects. In: Diachronic, areal and ...

Currently, through KUGOU AIK, users can sing songs in 15 Chinese dialects and 10 languages, including English, Japanese, Korean and more. Multi-million-selling Irish pop group Westlife revealed today ...

The present volume is thus a unique attempt to explore the typological diversity of Japonic by providing a collection of grammatical sketches of various local varieties, four from Japanese dialects ...