Abstract: Deep neural networks have been applied to audio spectrograms for respiratory sound classification. Existing models often treat the spectrogram as a synthetic image while overlooking its ...

For the past 25 years, South Sound Reading Foundation has been bringing the joy and adventure of books to our area children, at no cost to the families. Reading just 20 minutes a day promotes the ...

If seeing is believing, then hearing is feeling. And yet sound remains one of the hardest elements of filmmaking to judge during awards season. In 2021, the Academy merged its Sound Editing and Sound ...

We independently review everything we recommend. When you buy through our links, we may earn a commission. Learn more› By Rory Evans Rory Evans read 5,285 pages in 2025, mostly in bed. Most weeknights ...

Just slowing down gives you time to question and reflect. Morsa Images/DigitalVision via Getty Images The average American checks their phone over 140 times a day, clocking an average of 4.5 hours of ...

Every January, many of us resolve to finally read more. A new book appears on the nightstand, an audiobook gets downloaded, or we dust off an old library card. We keep finding our way back to it ...

I was 25-years-old and living in New York City. I had just finished my first novel, set to dip my toes into the literary world for the first time. Then, I spilled water on my computer, and lost the ...

CRESTLINE — Crestline Public Library is launching several programs in January, including a winter reading challenge and wellness events, according to a community announcement. The Crestline Adult/Teen ...

If you read a book in 2025—just one book—you belong to an endangered species. Like honeybees and red wolves, the population of American readers, Lector americanus, has been declining for decades. The ...

In 2024, my niece Caroline received a Ph.D. in gravitational-wave physics. Her research interests include “the impact of model inaccuracies on biases in parameters recovered from gravitational wave ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. On Dec. 1, the Yellowstone Gateway Museum opened a new exhibition called, “The Secret Language of ...

Nearly a year ago, when Education Week hosted an online conference about adolescent literacy across the content areas, we got a lot of interested and enthusiastic responses from participants. But we ...