Human Speechome Project
The Human Speechome Project (“Speechome” is based on the word “genome”) is an ongoing research project under the leadership of Deb Roy in the Media Lab at MIT to monitor language acquisition in children in the first three years of life.
To this end, Ben Roy observed his son for years and evaluated the 200 terabytes of data that were created. From the results, computer models for language acquisition and use were created, which are to be used to analyze social discourse and other issues in the field of digital humanities .
Web links
- Deb Roy's MIT home page
- Article in New Scientist
- Article in Wired Magazine
- Language Acquisition , (draft), Steven Pinker of MIT.
- TED talk about the project by Deb Roy
Individual evidence
- ↑ "The Power of Babble" , Wired, 2007, "MIT researcher Deb Roy is videotaping every waking minute of his infant son's first 3 years of life ..."