Story next hopes to create a virtual
vocal tract on a computer to study the nuances of the voice.
Not exact matches
She is also working
on the
vocal tract of the woolly mammoth.
Her sculpture of the creature's
vocal tract is
on display now through January 2013 at Cité du Design in central France.
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.
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.
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.
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.