Dysphonia is a common condition of abnormal voice production, often caused by problems with the voice box or vocal cords.

Unlike previous systems that convert brain signals into text, this BCI synthesizes actual speech almost instantaneously. The ...

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Fitch, W. and Giedd, J. (1999) Morphology and Development of the Human Vocal Tract A Study Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 106, 1511-1522.

Using MRI, the team recorded the shape of the vocal tract for 41 speakers as the subjects produced a series of representative speech sounds. They averaged these shapes to establish a sound ...

To measure aspects of the vocal tract which are not visible externally, the researchers analysed 3D structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which capture the anatomical features of both soft ...

A new consortium of geneticists, neuroscientists and linguists, initiated by Dan Dediu, ICREA professor at the Faculty of Philology and Communication and member of the Institute of Complex Systems ...

To measure aspects of the vocal tract which are not visible externally, the researchers analyzed 3D structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which capture the anatomical features of both soft ...

Wagner under an MRI As Michael sang, scientists analysed his vocal tract, using magnetic resonance imaging to find out if the pitch and loudness of his singing had any effect on his vocal articulators ...

In 2013 David Howard, an electronic engineer now at Royal Holloway, University of London, was demonstrating one such model—a “vocal tract organ” that plays vowel sounds through a 3-D-printed ...

Using the CT scan, the team 3-D-printed a copy of Nesyamun’s vocal tract between the larynx and lips. Dr. Howard then took a loudspeaker, similar to one used on an ice cream truck, removed the ...