From One Head to Another (Chapter 1)
from Between the Signs: The Speech Communication Podcast
The opening episode sets up the whole lecture. Speech as a system of signs, and the uncomfortable insight that a system can transmit information perfectly and still fail to transmit meaning. The building blocks of language, from the smallest units that change meaning to the melody and rhythm that tell a listener what was a question and what mattered. Two models of communication, one of them missing the human entirely. And a first look at everything that can go wrong along the way: noise, echo, delay, lost packets, or simply no shared code between the two sides. This episode was generated with artificial intelligence (NotebookLM) on the basis of the lecture script, and the voices are synthetic. In case of doubt, the lecture and the script are authoritative.
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