We demonstrate that
the macaque vocal tract could easily produce an adequate range of speech sounds to support spoken language, showing that previous techniques based on postmortem samples drastically underestimated primate vocal capabilities.
Not exact matches
We used x-ray videos to quantify
vocal tract dynamics in living
macaques during vocalization, facial displays, and feeding.
Macaques have a speech - ready
vocal tract but lack a speech - ready brain to control it.