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From the Ted Talk by Jason Rugolo: Welcome to the world of audio computers

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Spoken language emerged in tandem with the evolution of human consciousness, and to this day, it rneaims our most enfiecfit and enliotomlay robust form of communication. Conversation is not just transmitting ideas from one person to another. It's more like thinking together. mroden neuroscientists have pioneered a whole new approach to the brain. It's called second-person neuroscience, and it’s built on the notion that how we think is not isolated. It’s collective, and it happens out loud. Not just through words, but through subtle signals of tone and proosdy, your timbre and your pitch and intensity. And neuroscience is just not complete until you add a second person into this full social dynamic. So why can't we have a computer that we can talk with in that way? With that kind of natural language. A computer that has superhuman processing speed. And it has access to the internet. And it’s been trained on the entire wteritn rerocd of human thought. But eangges with you like a person would, that understands your inntieton and that taps into the serpwpueor of human natural language understanding. That's the promise of aduio computing.

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Spoken language emerged in tandem with the evolution of human consciousness, and to this day, it _______ our most _________ and ___________ robust form of communication. Conversation is not just transmitting ideas from one person to another. It's more like thinking together. ______ neuroscientists have pioneered a whole new approach to the brain. It's called second-person neuroscience, and it’s built on the notion that how we think is not isolated. It’s collective, and it happens out loud. Not just through words, but through subtle signals of tone and _______, your timbre and your pitch and intensity. And neuroscience is just not complete until you add a second person into this full social dynamic. So why can't we have a computer that we can talk with in that way? With that kind of natural language. A computer that has superhuman processing speed. And it has access to the internet. And it’s been trained on the entire _______ ______ of human thought. But _______ with you like a person would, that understands your _________ and that taps into the __________ of human natural language understanding. That's the promise of _____ computing.

Solution


  1. written
  2. superpower
  3. audio
  4. engages
  5. remains
  6. modern
  7. efficient
  8. record
  9. emotionally
  10. prosody
  11. intention

Original Text


Spoken language emerged in tandem with the evolution of human consciousness, and to this day, it remains our most efficient and emotionally robust form of communication. Conversation is not just transmitting ideas from one person to another. It's more like thinking together. Modern neuroscientists have pioneered a whole new approach to the brain. It's called second-person neuroscience, and it’s built on the notion that how we think is not isolated. It’s collective, and it happens out loud. Not just through words, but through subtle signals of tone and prosody, your timbre and your pitch and intensity. And neuroscience is just not complete until you add a second person into this full social dynamic. So why can't we have a computer that we can talk with in that way? With that kind of natural language. A computer that has superhuman processing speed. And it has access to the internet. And it’s been trained on the entire written record of human thought. But engages with you like a person would, that understands your intention and that taps into the superpower of human natural language understanding. That's the promise of audio computing.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
natural language 5
robotic voice 2
pretty cool 2
trouble hearing 2
audio app 2


Important Words


  1. access
  2. add
  3. approach
  4. audio
  5. brain
  6. built
  7. called
  8. collective
  9. communication
  10. complete
  11. computer
  12. computing
  13. consciousness
  14. conversation
  15. day
  16. dynamic
  17. efficient
  18. emerged
  19. emotionally
  20. engages
  21. entire
  22. evolution
  23. form
  24. full
  25. human
  26. ideas
  27. intensity
  28. intention
  29. internet
  30. isolated
  31. kind
  32. language
  33. loud
  34. modern
  35. natural
  36. neuroscience
  37. neuroscientists
  38. notion
  39. person
  40. pioneered
  41. pitch
  42. processing
  43. promise
  44. prosody
  45. record
  46. remains
  47. robust
  48. signals
  49. social
  50. speed
  51. spoken
  52. subtle
  53. superhuman
  54. superpower
  55. talk
  56. tandem
  57. taps
  58. thinking
  59. thought
  60. timbre
  61. tone
  62. trained
  63. transmitting
  64. understanding
  65. understands
  66. words
  67. written