human voice

sound made by a human being using the vocal tract

AI overview

Your human voice is the sound your body produces when air from your lungs vibrates your vocal cords and is shaped by your throat, mouth, and lips. It matters because it's your primary tool for communicating with others and expressing yourself.

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Research

59,760 papers

Human voice attractiveness processing: Electrophysiological evidence.Biological psychology · 2020Zhang H, Liu M, Li W et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2019.107827
Distinct functional levels of human voice processing in the auditory cortex.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2023Staib M, Frühholz SDOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhac128
Understanding the mechanisms of familiar voice-identity recognition in the human brain.ReviewNeuropsychologia · 2018Maguinness C, Roswandowitz C, von Kriegstein KDOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.03.039
Voice categorization in the four-month-old human brain.Current biology : CB · 2024Calce RP, Rekow D, Barbero FM et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.11.042
Beauty and Attractiveness in the Human Voice.Journal of voice : official journal of the Voice Foundation · 2022Petty BE, Gillespie AI, Shelly S et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2020.07.002
Human voice perception.Current biology : CB · 2011Latinus M, Belin PDOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2010.12.033
Voice pitch modulation in human mate choice.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2018Pisanski K, Oleszkiewicz A, Plachetka J et al.DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2018.1634
Electrocorticography reveals the dynamics of famous voice responses in human fusiform gyrus.Journal of neurophysiology · 2023Rhone AE, Rupp K, Hect JL et al.DOI: 10.1152/jn.00459.2022

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The spectrogram of the human voice reveals its rich harmonic content. The audio that is represented in the above spectrogram - a woman says "It's all Greek to me" using her voice. The human voice consists of sound made by a human being using the vocal tract, including talking, singing, laughing, crying, screaming, shouting, humming or yelling. The human voice is specifically a part of human sound production in which the vocal folds (vocal cords) are the primary sound source. Other sound production mechanisms produced from the same general area of the body involve the production of unvoiced consonants, clicks, whistling and whispering.

Generally speaking, the mechanism for generating the human voice can be subdivided into three parts; the lungs, the vocal folds within the larynx (voice box), and the articulators. The lungs, the "pump" must produce adequate airflow and air pressure to vibrate vocal folds. The vocal folds (vocal cords) then vibrate to use airflow from the lungs to create audible pulses that form the laryngeal sound source. The muscles of the larynx adjust the length and tension of the vocal folds to 'fine-tune' pitch and tone. The articulators (the parts of the vocal tract above the larynx consisting of tongue, palate, cheek, lips, etc.) articulate and filter the sound emanating from the larynx and to some degree can interact with the laryngeal airflow to strengthen or weaken it as a sound source.