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Humans are the only ape that sings, but we’re also the only ape that sings poorly. It’s a lot easier to whistle.
Hawking’s life embodied what it means to have access to the human right of communication through communication technology.
Your voice can affect how attractive, fertile and faithful people think you are.
You can log in to your smartphone by talking to it. Current security systems don’t protect enough against imitators. The best way to ensure voice authentication is secure is to start with the sound.
We humans are capable of vocalising many different words in a range of languages. But what is it that gives us a remakable and variable voice?
Here’s what one man from around 3,300BC actually sounded like.
The writing process is different whether your instrument is a fountain pen, a crayon, a typewriter or a computer. What fingerprints does the technology leave on the product?
Do women prefer ‘manly men’ with thick beards and deep voices? Science reveals all.
Women who were found to have lied in a clinical trial testing anti-HIV drugs were heavily criticised. But there are several factors that drove them to lie.
Much has been written about vocal fry in recent years, with the focus on what it is, where it comes from and what it means … at least when it comes to females who fry. What’s really going on here?
Performers and audiences alike are undermined by graphic depictions of violence, like Michieletto’s Guillaume Tell.
The violence of the Royal Opera House’s production of William Tell should shock us - but that doesn’t mean it’s wrong.
The intensity and the consistent presence of sonic textures such as machine noise, distorted high-frequency sounds, midrange drones, sub-sonic hums and the like have significantly shaped the contexts of our hearing.
With the recent acquisition by Facebook of voice-recognition company Wit.ai, all four major players in the post-PC market (Apple, Google, Microsoft and Facebook) now have a significant infrastructure for…
The release of DreamWorks’ How to Train Your Dragon 2 has once again brought into relief the fact that animated feature films now regularly attract a host of Hollywood stars and high-profile performers…
Dogs really are our best friends. A study published today in Current Biology shows not only do dogs and humans read emotions in each other’s “voices”, but both are more attuned to “happy” sounds. And the…
People prefer voices that are similar to their own, because they convey a sense of community and social belongingness, research…
The secret to koalas’ distinctive low-pitched vocalisations has been found, according to a [study published today](http://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(13%2901344-4) in the journal Current…
The voice is an important tool which we use to communicate and express ourselves. But our voices convey so much more than the words we say. Just a few words can reveal clues about someone’s gender, age…
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Professor emerita of the Social and Critical Histories of Art, University of Leeds
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Professor of Music - Composer / Multimedia Artist, University of Newcastle
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Director of the Voice Research Laboratory at the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney
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