New research with a 25-year-old chimp, Panzee, has shown that Panzee can “interpret” highly distorted speech sounds - in a way similar to humans.

This paper presents a channel adaptation method named spectral adjusting (SA) normalizes the distorted speech spectrum with a piecewise linear normalization function.

Wisdom, Justice, and Love - Another interlude. This one is of a speech by MLK which gets more distorted as it goes on which leads into...