Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

Abstract: Traditional acoustic-phonetic approach makes use of both spectral and phonetic information when comparing the voice of speakers. While phonetic units are not equally informative, the ...

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