A growing amount of research has shown associations between sexually dimorphic vocal
traits and physiological conditions related to reproductive advantage. This paper presented …

The human voice carries socially relevant information such as how authoritative, dominant,
and attractive the speaker sounds. However, some speakers may be able to manipulate …

Research on within-individual modulation of vocal cues is surprisingly scarce outside of
human speech. Yet, voice modulation serves diverse functions in human and nonhuman …

A substantial body of acoustic and behavioural evidence points to the existence of two broad
categories of laughter in humans: spontaneous laughter that is emotionally genuine and …

Introduction Wuxi dialect is a variation of Wu dialect spoken in eastern China and is
characterized by a rich tonal system. Compared with standard Mandarin speakers, those of …

Period-doubled phonation, henceforth, period doubling, characterized by voicing periods
that alternate in amplitudes and/or frequencies, is often perceived rough and with an …

This study investigated the capability of vocal-identity-cloning Artificial Intelligence (AI) to
encode human-specific confident, doubtful, and neutral-intending emotive states. Linear …

Acting on the world requires the right action at the right time. This is perhaps most easily
seen in music where the meaning of a piece is encoded explicitly by both the pitches of …

The human voice is the most commoncarrier'of speech, but how does linguistic voice quality
affect speech production and perception? Typicalmodal'voice possesses a single …

Real-time magnetic resonance imaging (rtMRI) is a technique that provides high-contrast
videographic data of human anatomy in motion. Applied to the vocal tract, it is a powerful …