I have a secret power: I'm the allergy canary. About a week before the high pollen levels in Washington, D.C., burst forth, my body feels it! My nose is stuffed, my eyes tickle and itch — and my voice ...

WASHINGTON, March 21, 2023 – Only humans have the ability to use speech. Remarkably, this communication is understandable across accent, social background, and anatomy despite a wide variety of ways ...

Perhaps your voice is raspier than it once was. Or it might sound more quavery. These kinds of problems can be common as we age, often starting in our 60s, and they affect about 19 percent of all ...

Over time, humans lost the vocal membranes and air sacs found in monkeys and apes and developed a more stable voice box.

Researchers explore how anatomical variations in a speaker's vocal tract affect speech production. Using MRI, the team recorded the shape of the vocal tract for 41 speakers as the subjects produced a ...