ArticleiScience2023
Beyond speech: Exploring diversity in the human voice.
Article in iScience, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.
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- Chants across seven traditions share acoustic traits that enhance subjective relaxation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
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- CoVox: A dataset of contrasting vocalizations.Behavior research methods · 2025Article
- Formant analysis of vertebrate vocalizations: achievements, pitfalls, and promises.BMC biology · 2025Review
- How to analyse and manipulate nonlinear phenomena in voice recordings.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Review
- Nonlinear acoustic phenomena affect the perception of pain in human baby cries.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Nonlinear vocal phenomena and speech intelligibility.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Exploring nonlinear phenomena in animal vocalizations through oscillator theory.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Review
- Applying nonlinear dynamics to the voice: a historical perspective.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Review
- 'Monkey yodels'-frequency jumps in New World monkey vocalizations greatly surpass human vocal register transitions.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Article
- The Scope and Limits of Iconic Prosody: Head Angle PredictsOpen mind : discoveries in cognitive science · 2025Article
- Principal dimensions of voice production and their role in vocal expression.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2024Article
- Spectro-temporal acoustical markers differentiate speech from song across cultures.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Globally, songs and instrumental melodies are slower and higher and use more stable pitches than speech: A Registered Report.Science advances · 2024Article
- Perceptual (but not acoustic) features predict singing voice preferences.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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5 authors at 3 institutions in 4 countries.
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Abstract
Humans have evolved voluntary control over vocal production for speaking and singing, while preserving the phylogenetically older system of spontaneous nonverbal vocalizations such as laughs and screams. To test for systematic acoustic differences between these vocal domains, we analyzed a broad, cross-cultural corpus representing over 2 h of speech, singing, and nonverbal vocalizations. We show that, while speech is relatively low-pitched and tonal with mostly regular phonation, singing and especially nonverbal vocalizations vary enormously in pitch and often display harsh-sounding, irregular phonation owing to nonlinear phenomena. The evolution of complex supralaryngeal articulatory spectro-temporal modulation has been critical for speech, yet has not significantly constrained laryngeal source modulation. In contrast, articulation is very limited in nonverbal vocalizations, which predominantly contain minimally articulated open vowels and rapid temporal modulation in the roughness range. We infer that vocal source modulation works best for conveying affect, while vocal filter modulation mainly facilitates semantic communication.
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