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 ...

The ability to detect vocal sounds, and the more specialized skill of recognizing calls from one's own species, is supported by evolutionarily ancient brain mechanisms, according to a new study from ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...