The southern drawl gets deconstructed
Understanding vowel sound diversity could improve Siri
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SWEET AS PAH Delving into the vowel pronunciations of Southerners, who, for example, turn pie into “pah,” reveals surprising linguistic complexity that could help make better speech recognition software.
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