Researchers explore how anatomical variations in a speaker's vocal tract affect speech production. Using MRI, the team recorded the shape of the vocal tract for 41 speakers as the subjects produced a ...

A replica of a 3,000-year-old mummy’s vocal tract has revealed how that mummy might sound if he rose from the dead. “We are confident that the sound we are hearing is the sound that belongs to this ...

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A mummified Egyptian priest just “spoke” for the first time in 3,000 years. Using Computed Tomography (CT) scans of the mummy Nesyamun’s larynx and throat, a team of British researchers was able to 3D ...

WASHINGTON, March 21, 2023 – Only humans have the ability to use speech. Remarkably, this communication is understandable across accent, social background, and anatomy despite a wide variety of ways ...