EditorialFor Alexa to speak like a Dubliner, Amazon researchers had to crack a problem that?s vexed data scientists for years: voice disentanglement. (Shane Cluskey/The New York Times)
EditorialIt’s too simplistic to label “Yellowstone” a “red-state drama.” But the cowboy soap speaks the language of culture war with a perfect accent. (María Jesús Contreras/The New York Times)
EditorialAnnissa Essaibi George, a Democratic city councilor and mayoral candidate, speaks with Pop Warner footballers and coaches in Boston, Sept. 11, 2021. (M. Scott Brauer/The New York Times)
EditorialA picture depicting Yevgeniya B. Shasheva as a child with her parents, seen in Nizhny Odes, in northern Russia, Dec. 15, 2020. (Emile Ducke/The New York Times)
EditorialEmbroidery sample, Medium: silk, paper Technique: embroidered on cut supplementary warp pile (velvet), Green cut ground embroidered in a border design of naturalistic roses in shades of pink, green, tan, yellow and white. Knot stitches used for accent....
EditorialCurtain, Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 17281808, Medium: cotton Technique: copperplate printed on plain weave, White curtain panel printed in blue with chinoiserie design. Two Asian-inspired figures climbing a fantasy stairway in mid-air, a figure p...
EditorialMaker (clockworks): Frederick Heisely, American, 17591839, Tall Case?Clock, Walnut, yellow-poplar, painted sheet iron, 100 1/4 ? 20 7/16 ? 11 1/4 in. (254.7 ? 51.9 ? 28.6?cm), Tallcase clocks needed at least two, and sometimes three, trades in their fa...
EditorialHotel Sale (accent) or " salted" was built in 1656 for a salt tax collector, hence the malicious name given it by the Parisians. Today it houses the Picasso-Museum.
EditorialA collection of images of Tre Cotten, an accent coach, showing exercises and movements during speech training in Vancouver, Canada, Oct. 20, 2020. (Alana Paterson/The New York Times)
EditorialA collection of images of Tre Cotten, an accent coach, showing exercises and movements during speech training in Vancouver, Canada, Oct. 20, 2020. (Alana Paterson/The New York Times)
EditorialStrip of gold lace with one-sided ivy leaves, Strip of spool lace, gold lace. The pattern consists of a concatenation of unilaterally oriented leaves, which have the shape of ivy leaves or vine leaves. The leaves form the scallops along the underside o...
EditorialOrbit silk damask with a pattern of switched grid work and orbits ornament of lanterns, Orbit silk damask with a pattern of switched grid work in golden yellow on golden yellow ground 'over which' orbs with an ornament of lampions in green, brown, oran...
EditorialOrbit silk damask with a pattern of switched grid work and orbits ornament of lanterns, Orbit silk damask with a pattern of switched grid work in golden yellow on golden yellow ground 'over which' orbs with an ornament of lampions in green, brown, oran...