Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Maria Zijlstra: Hello hello! It's the last for Lingua Franca, in ABC Radio National's Summer series, ...

Indigenous Australians experience poorer health outcomes than non-Indigenous Australians. They are sick more often, die younger and are at higher risk of serious health complications, including heart ...

More and more phones, televisions, smart speakers, and cars are embedded with automated speech-recognition technologies that transcribe speech into written words. These technologies enable the devices ...

Learn the Aboriginal English meaning for MOB, CHARGED UP, DEADLY and GAMMIN. Plus, find out what's the difference between Welcome to Country and Acknowledgement of Country. No, that’s not English.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are being excluded from technology that does not understand the way they speak, the terms they use, or the cultural significance behind them. However, a ...

Professor Debra Dank has spent four decades proving that Aboriginal English isn’t “broken” but represents sophisticated communication systems that teachers still fail to understand. For Dr Debra Dank, ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Aboriginal children should be forced to learn English to escape lives of poverty and inequality, said Australia's indigenous affairs minister. "Too many still only have a ...

"I asked it to call one of my sisters, and it then started calling an old boss that I don't talk to any more." —Amy, 25, recalling an awkward experience using a voice-operated device. Using voice to ...