Even though living in mom's womb is a noisy place, filled with the sounds of mom's heartbeat, digestion sounds, and more, hearing
a human voice sounds amazing.
Not exact matches
Sounding more authoritative means finding that deeper register in your
voice and avoiding the
human tic to «upspeak» at the end of sentences when you're unsure of something.
Check how your name
sounds too and get plenty of feedback, from both
humans and
voice recognition software.
You've heard a lot of social media experts stress the importance of having a genuine
voice (as in
sounding human rather than corporate) when posting links or information to your company's social media pages.
Coming up with a number
sounds clean and scientific but relying entirely on such a score and disregarding words entirely, means you lose the
human voices behind the statistics, which have huge value, Marke insists.
From the point of view of the
human sensorium, the Mass is first of all an event in the dimension of
sound, the
sound of the
human voice.
It uses the most universal instrument, the
human voice, and
sounds created by earthy things like catgut and skin and wood and brass.
If we have something to say about the timeless enemies of the
human condition — injustice, ignorance, bigotry, exploitation, hunger, war — we will fail if we try to
sound like every other
voice in the public realm instead of using our language and tradition.
It is within the
human spirit that the
voice of Christ
sounds and the dead rise to a new life which is eternal; there, in quality of living, men pass «out of death into life»; there, as the first Johannine Epistle puts it, «He that hath the Son hath the life; he that hath not the Son of God hath not the life.»
A newborn can tell the difference between a
human voice and other
sounds.
They found that the infant brain attends to
human voices and emotions even more than familiar environmental
sounds.
Just as your baby naturally prefers the
human face over any other visual pattern, he also prefers the
human voice to other
sounds.
CONTACT HIGHS By Sy Schleimer What a miracle of
human sound When sharing by
voice was found.
Humans appear to identify
voices by making comparisons between talkers» pronunciations of words and listeners» stored abstract representations of the
sounds in those words.
It then converts the signals into
sounds, selected by Chafe, that are close in tone to the
human voice.
They found that the more prevalent the
human - generated
sounds, such as traffic, machinery and
voices, the poorer the ecological condition.
Sounds of the Jurassic The
voices of woolly mammoths and 3 - million - year - old
human ancestors are far from the only ones scientists have revived.
A new approach to automatic classification of birdsong borrows techniques from
human voice recognition software to sort through the
sounds of hundreds of species and decides on its own which features make each one unique.
Building on the tradition of music synthesizers that can convincingly re-create the
sounds of a string ensemble or a brass band, Vocaloid makes it possible to re-create the
sound of the
human voice — singing melodies and words that you define.
He has programmed them to blurt out sequences of random notes, and two weeks later, he returns to find that the robots are still cooing in their eerily
human voices, but they have now «evolved» to sing a repertoire of 20
sounds together.
The
human ability to control
voice and learn new
sounds may be traceable back to the great apes after all.
Having a
sound source that close to the Kinect's four microphones will dramatically undermine its ability to separate
human voices from other
sounds, and thus make it much harder for the Kinect to understand you.
Birds and
humans look different,
sound different and evolved completely different organs for
voice production.
«While strange
sounding voices might be more memorable because they are novel,
humans find «average»
sounding voices to be more attractive.
Using only the classroom
sounds, DART could classify the audio into three categories — single
voice (traditional lecture with question and answer), multiple
voice (student interactive group work), or no
voice (student thinking, writing or individual problem solving)-- with over 90 percent accuracy, which matched the ability of the
human evaluators to correctly classify the classroom environment.
Dale Purves, a neuroscientist at Duke University, set out to understand if there was a biological origin to this tonal preference, and struck a chord in April when he reported (pdf) that the tones of the chromatic scale are dominated by the harmonic ratios found in the
sound of the
human voice.
In 29 trials on 17 pumas, the cats fled in 83 per cent of tests when
human voices were played, and only once in response to the frog
sound.
They found that
humans produce more
sounds that are «
voiced» — the characteristic «Ha!
Moustapha Cissé, an AI researcher at Facebook, and his colleagues figured out that a similar technique — which they have called Houdini — can be used to fool both
voice recognition and machine vision systems, by adding such small amounts of digital noise to images and
sounds that
humans would not notice.
The birds we prize most for their songs
sound most like the
human voice, says Robert Zatorre, a cognitive neuroscientist at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, who was not involved in the study.
January 8, 2016 • Hear the Paris native merge the oldest instrument, the
human voice, with a palette of colorful electronic
sounds, applied with a painter's touch.
This is just me making up connections where none exist, of course, but I still like to think that if there were some crazy intertextuality going on, the sinister -
sounding voice that intones here about totally - not - at - all - evil reasons for testing dangerous rollercoasters on live
human subjects will one day, after the robot apocalypse, be putting people through much more rigourous testing, perhaps while wearing orange jumpsuits.
My hunch is that Pasek & Paul have crafted a terrific score, but the film buries it in pounding, processed, overdubbed orchestrations that make the
voices sound disembodied and auto - tuned out any traces of
human nuance.
A reel of bloopers (1:35) provides mild amusement with its mix of canine and
human goof - ups plus a bit of
sound studio silliness from
voice actors Jason Lee and Amy Adams.
Chapter 2 is an analysis of the soundtrack of Sauve qui peut (la vie) made with Anne - Marie Miéville — a film which «looks back to the problematic status of the
human body and
voice in early
sound cinema» (Fox, 34).
You can also feel his own intolerance about
sound: «We do not want now and we shall never want the
human voice with our films.»
The film opens on abstracted
sounds, like a
human voice learning its sonic possibilities, and enigmatic imagery, and Glazer expects us to create our own meaning from the clues we take in along the odyssey.
High - quality
voices can have a surprisingly
human - like
sound to them.
His training background includes character development and
voice acting, and he's delivered confident and genuinely
human sounding voiceovers for over a decade by combining his understanding of audio technology and ability to assess and understand scripts quickly.
And they will have the option to choose a more
human -
sounding voice.
A fake -
human voice, faux - friendly and regular - guy -
sounding, calls to rat you out.
Charlie McCarthy had given way to Walter Winchell with no loss of comedy, but even when the jailer laughed at something Winchell had said, even with the
sound of another
human voice in close proximity, Dulaney felt isolated, alone on an alien planet in a time he barely knew.
Polly is the AWS text - to - speech service that uses deep learning to synthesize speech that
sounds like a
human voice.
However, while the dogs responded to the
human voice, their reactions were far stronger when it came to canine
sounds.
The
sound of the clicker is more consistent and is more reliably reproduced than using the
human voice to say «good dog», «way to go», or even «nice boy».
Before his eyes were open he was reacting to
human voices and wherever he was in the «pile» of pups he would heave himself out and stagger towards the
sound, wagging his tail vigorously.
Also, I hear (have never tried) quiet and gentle music, or a TV on low — the volume people would talk at in your home — so he can hear
sounds and
human voices has a calming effect and quietens down a puppy.
The downside of this is that the
human characters can be a bit lacking in background or personality, including Tim, whose
voice actor almost always
sounds like he's half asleep.
Don't get me wrong; the music is great and the
sound effects of enemy explosions are done well, the alerts about
humans in danger add a sense of urgency, and I even enjoy the
voices coming from my controller though that took sometime to get used to, but the soundtrack just felt forgettable.
The composer loves the wide range of the cello and its similarities to the
sound of the
human voice.