Every spring, commencement speakers offer their wisdom. We combed through dozens of speeches from over the years and pulled ...

These country songs uphold the classic tradition of spoken-word lyrics. Revisit this convention of country music via these hits.

People are talking less than they used to. A lot less. Between 2005 and 2019, the number of words the average person uttered in a day fell by 28%. That’s according to a recent study from a team of U.S ...

“I can’t pay no doctor bills, But whitey’s on the moon. Ten years from now I’ll be payin’ still, While whitey’s on the moon. The man just upped my rent last night, Cause whitey’s on the moon. No hot ...

SALT LAKE CITY — The "Music and the Spoken Word" sounded a little different this week. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced the program will now be broadcast to 17 countries in ...

We spend a good portion of our lives texting, DM-ing, and emailing. Is all of this electronic, written communication decreasing the amount of time we are speaking to other humans? Recent research ...

Technology has removed many of the reasons people had for talking to each other like ordering food or asking for directions A new study from the University of Missouri-Kansas City reveals that people ...

A world built around self-checkouts, GPS, delivery apps, and screens might be quietly shrinking the amount of real conversation we have each day. A new study suggests that daily spoken word counts ...

Consider the consequence, or seeming lack thereof, of 300 words. Theoretically speaking, it’s not too much. A casual conversation as you stand in a coworker’s doorway, perhaps, asking about the trip ...

In a society increasingly shaped by self-checkouts, GPS navigation and touchscreen ordering kiosks, new research shows face-to-face conversation may be quietly fading. A new study published in ...

It may have seemed unthinkable a decade ago, but, for the first time, podcasts have surpassed over-the-air radio in daily spoken-word audio time in the US, according to new Edison Research Share of ...