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If it detects something constant that moves slower than a human is able to move his or her vocal tract, the system identifies it as a phone or tape recorder, Mammone explains.
You are what you speak
In normal speech, vowel sounds are produced by adjusting the position of the tongue, jaw and lips so that the vocal tract resonates at specific frequencies.
Sopranos hit high notes but drop vowels
physical exams of the larynx and vocal tract, neurological evaluation and diagnostic voice therapy.
Annotated bibliography on musician wellness
Voice pattern verification technology creates a mathematical model of the vocal tract.
The body biometric
0, which identifies speakers according to unique vocal identifiers that are related to the shape of an individual's vocal tract.
ITEXPO's Global Community of IT-Buyers, Resellers, Distributors, and the Media Creates a Perfect Launch Platform for Exhibitors to Unveil New Products and Services
Researchers said that this is the first study to link vocal tract shape to call identification in the animal kingdom.
Lemurs can tell between peers through nasal grunts
Together, these data from our primate cousins support the idea that the origins of speech might be found in an evolutionary combination of "traditional" phonation (sounds produced by the vocal cords, in the larynx) with rapid, learned movements of the vocal tract, which have stronger similarities to primate facial signals than to their innate calls.
Monkey Lip Smacks Provide New Insights into Evolution of Human Speech
He details aspects relating to posture and the back, movements of the arm and hand and associated problems, breathing, the embouchure and respiratory tract in wind playing, the larynx and vocal tract in singers, the role of the brain in skill acquisition and aural processing, and performance-related stress and its management.
The biology of musical performance and performance-related injury. (CD-ROM included)
Zehu's authentication platform is based on patented biometric Adaptive Speaker Verification (ASV) technology, which identifies speakers according to unique vocal identifiers that are related to the shape of an individual's vocal tract.
Zehu Technologies to Introduce Zehu Authenticator(TM) 3.0 at INTERNET TELEPHONY(R) Conference & EXPO West 2008 Booth #247
Language depends not just on a vocal tract capable of making certain speech sounds but on ears designed to hear particular sound frequencies, as well as on a variety of other brain and body features.
Evolution's ear: recent changes in hearing-related genes may have influenced language development
Ghazala not begun with a description of Sir Richard Paget's experiments with the vocal tract from a human cadaver, which led him to develop a motor-carriage horn that shouted "Away
Experimental Musical Instruments: Newsletter for the Design, Construction and Enjoyment of Unusual Sound Sources
The gas is famous for making human voices appear high pitched by shifting the resonance frequencies of the vocal tract upwards.
Gibbons 'sing like soprano singers'

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