Sentences with phrase «vocal tracts with»

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When we produce a vowel, the vocal tract (throat and oral cavity) behaves like a system of moving pipes with specific resonances.

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).

It is used for all sorts of conditions including rhinitis (inflammation of the nasal cavities), pharyngitis (inflammation of the tissues associated with the throat, vocal tissues, and oral areas associated with the respiratory tract), sinusitis (inflammation of the sinuses), conjunctivitis (inflammation of the delicate tissues around the eyes - which are often affected with upper respiratory conditions), and bronchitis!