And they can produce harmonic tones that almost sound like words. So, the thinking went, monkeys must represent an evolutionary stepping stone on the path to human speech.

Human echolocators “see” their worlds through sound, and thanks to a new computer model, you can too. Using math and painstaking experiments, a group from the UK modeled how the sounds from ...

Vibrating folds As a sound, we start to produce speech by producing a very finely controlled stream of breath from our lungs, and this vibrates our vocal folds - membranes in our windpipe that we hold ...

How Human Echolocation Allows People to See Without Using Their Eyes Mimicking bats and dolphins, some people have developed the ability to analyze bouncing sound waves to generate a picture of ...

Google Just Taught a Computer How to Speak Like a Human Google’s DeepMind unit just improved synthetic speech technology by 50 percent.

Human-produced noise doubles the background sound levels in 63 percent of protected areas, and raises it tenfold in 21 percent of such landscapes.