A new wave of startups are using deep learning to build synthetic voice actors for digital assistants, video-game characters, and corporate videos. The company blog post drips with the enthusiasm ...

Washington University Researchers have discovered that voice assistant programs like Siri can be hacked with ultrasonic sound waves that go undetected by human ears - but you probably won't have ...

A few locales might manage to pro­ject the ruckus of, say, a sci-fi movie explosion, but squeaks on the scale of a human voice would falter. This story originally published in the Noise, Winter ...

Usually, the sound waves your vocal cords produce travel through air in your voice box. But when they go through the helium that you’ve inhaled, they travel about three times faster. That’s because ...

So the sound waves bounce around faster in your vocal tract, which amplifies the higher frequencies in your voice. It's sort of like how speeding up your voice makes it sound higher. But hold on a ...

In the human voice box, ... During each of the oscillation cycles a wave travels over the vocal folds from the lungs to ... A common mechanism for human and bird sound production (2015 ...

At first listen, the grainy high-pitched warble doesn't sound like much, but scientists say the French recording from 1860 is the oldest-known recorded human voice. The 10-second clip of a woman ...

Its twists and folds are such that they specifically enhance sounds with a pitch that is typical for a human voice, a sound humans care about. They enhance these sounds up to 100 times and leave ...

Virtuosos who describe the singing voice of a violin may be on to something. The great violin makers, such as Stradivari and Guarneri, may have designed violins to mimic the human voice, new ...