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03/18/2026

A Language Parent is Better Than a Mandarin Tutor!

03/18/2026

How our brain is put together has been known for some time, but how the brain works remains the final frontier in science. Patom theory changes that. Photo by T

07/15/2025

John Ball was guest presenter at the bi-annual RRG Conference in Kobe, Japan yesterday officially announcing Speech Genie and new websites. Please follow our Speech Genie journey by visiting the website and entering your email address. We are building the world's most brain-friendly language lea...

01/09/2023

https://youtu.be/EKcIUiAlprk

John Ball and Walid Saba share their perspectives on real language understanding for machines

11/30/2022

Cognitive scientist John Ball talks with Prof Robert D. Van Valin, Jr, primary developer of linguistic framework RRG.

Find out why Role and Reference Grammar is a breakthrough, not just for our understanding of the worlds languages but for our communications with machines.

December 5th 1pm PST/4pm EST.

11/17/2022

For those who have been following our work and know the impact of our new science and engineering, you will know that in our new, weekly livestreams John Ball…

10/26/2022

Ok, we've scheduled the second interactive LIVE stream with John Ball. We're still learning how to use the production tools but if you want to come for rich learnings of next gen and are prepared to endure any technical mis steps, book it in your US west coast calendars. We'll be doing a Europe & East Coast timezone friendly one soon too......

Ok, we've scheduled the second interactive LIVE stream with John Ball. We're still learning how to use the production tools but if you want to come for...

10/22/2022

Speech recognition has been lauded as better than human accuracy. But under what conditions? For an American accent within a range of words covered by training data?

Performing well on benchmarking leaderboards is vastly different from 'in the wild' - ask someone who speaks English as a second language...... or an Australian......or when you're in a restaurant, try speaking with your device.

The future of conversational AI requires human-like speech recognition and to work together. John Ball explains how new brain science supports both.

Why doesn’t speech recognition operate at human-levels?

10/22/2022

Looking at what the new NLU industry does in terms of system performance and capability, and then how the use of linguists to specify the system function com...

10/16/2022

Find out about the brain theory inspiring world first meaning based, language independent .

Why ISN'T the brain like a computer?

This introduces a brain model based on what the brain does, rather than aligning a brain with the computer model. The explanation looks first at the problem ...