Vocal tract size, shape dictate speech sounds Nearly 75% of variability between speakers comes from differences in mouth and throat length. Date: ...

THIS book is primarily designed for the use of teachers, who, as the author points out, are probably the greatest voice-users, but it will interest all who speak or sing in public.

Then, with colleagues in the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, the team learned to listen for the firing of brain cells as they told the vocal organs to move.

Initiation: Setting air in motion through the vocal tract. Phonation: The modification of airflow as it passes through the larynx (related to voicing).. Articulation: The shaping of airflow to ...

"Such vocal fold oscillations occur from about 100 times/sec in normal speech to one of the highest possible notes sung in opera at about 1400 times/sec, a F6 in Mozart's "Die Zauberflöte", adds ...

The tissue was tested in dog cadaver organs that house the vocal cords and in mice with humanlike immune systems, University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers report in the Nov. 18 Science ...

The true art of song has always been possessed and will always be possessed by such individuals as are dowered by nature with all that is needful for it -- that is, healthy vocal organs, uninjured ...

In JASA, researchers explore how anatomical variations in a speaker’s vocal tract affect speech production. Using MRI, the team recorded the shape of the vocal tract for 41 speakers as the ...