Want to record vocals at home but struggling with room noise and unclear sound? Recording studio-quality vocals doesn’t require expensive gear or professional studios anymore. Music producers like ...

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 ...

Scientists have recreated the sound of an ancient Egyptian priest's voice with the help of his 3,000-year-old mummy. The researchers used non-destructive CT scans to examine the larynx and throat of ...

Small monkeys with white tufts of ear hair and long, striped tails may reveal some surprising new insights into how human infants learn to make speech sounds. Vocal learning plays out in marmosets ...

A viral clip showed a journalist slipping from her "broadcast voice" to her natural Boston accent. The typical broadcast speech pattern, which lacks a regional accent, is a holdover from the 1970s. An ...

An orangutan named Rocky is helping scientists figure out when early humans might have uttered the first word. Rocky, who is 12 and lives at the Indianapolis Zoo, has shown that he can control his ...

Human brains still react to chimp voices, hinting at a deep evolutionary link in how we recognize sound.

People's ability to perceive speech sounds has been deeply studied, specially during someone's first year of life, but what happens during the first hours after birth? Are babies born with innate ...