BBC环球慢速英语 第551期:人类家庭语言计划(2)

voice 2: Professor Deb Roy also takes pictures and video of his baby, John. But Professor Roy has a different reason. Professor Roy is trying to discover how human babies learn language. He wants to discover how a baby's environment shapes human development and learning.
声音2：德布·罗伊教授也给自己的孩子约翰拍摄照片和视频。不过罗伊教授这样做出于其他原因。罗伊教授正在试图了解人类婴儿学习语言的方式。他想知道婴儿所处环境会对人类的发展与学习产生何种影响。

voice 1: Today's Spotlight is on the Human Speechome Project.
声音1：今天的重点报道节目就聚焦“人类家庭语言计划”。

voice 2: The Roy family lives in Massachusetts, in the United States. Professor Roy works with computers. He tries to build computers that can learn to communicate in human-like ways. This means he first observes how humans communicate. Then he tries to build a computer model of their behaviour. Building computer models helps him and his research team to understand how people learn to communicate.
声音2：罗伊一家生活在美国马萨诸塞州。罗伊教授用电脑工作。他试图构建能学会用类似人类的方式进行交流的计算机模型。这意味着他首先要观察人类如何进行交流。然后，他再试图构建出人类行为方式的计算机模型。构建计算机模型能帮助他和他的研究团队理解人类学会交流的方式。