Sentences with phrase «human vocal tract»
This fluid cavity between the crust and the core could well harbor resonances leading to standing waves whose effect would be analogous to the human vocal tract's influence on the glottal pulses created by the glottis slamming shut every 10 ms, selectively amplifying certain harmonics to create formants F1 through F5.
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In this Sneak Peak Ali Miharbi gives an overview of his recent practice, including his sound installation Whisper, that is based on the shapes human vocal tract during speech.
The negative side is that cepstral coefficients reflect the geometry of the human vocal tract, but we are not too different from one another, so the system tends to make false hits,» says Peter French from the University of York, president of the International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics (IAFPA) and director of J.P. French Associates, the main forensic phonetics company in the U.K. «I believe that automatic systems should be combined with human intervention,» French says.
The team computed the sounds and frequencies these monkeys could, in theory, produce from the 99 tract configurations they saw, and compared them with those made by human vocal tracts (Science Advances, DOI: 10.1126 / sciadv.1600723).
Not exact matches
He believes that even if the primate brain could develop the proper motor skills to communicate their vocal tracts lack the ability to form, «distinct human sounds.»
In speech it's very difficult to get at a lot of things that we want to understand, because humans aren't willing to have needles and probes stuck through their vocal tracts.
For four decades, the inability of nonhuman primates to produce human speech sounds has been claimed to stem from limitations in their vocal tract anatomy, a conclusion based on plaster casts made from the vocal tract of a monkey cadaver.
A model of the Neanderthal's vocal tract showed it to be similar to a modern human female's and capable of speech.
In humans, vowel differentiation is largely affected by vocal tract manipulations, such as tongue placement, and independent shifting of formants is common [45], [58], [59].