An Australian didgeridoo is a reed-less hollow conically shape wooden tubular wind instrument typically measuring up to 150 cm in length, with distal and proximal diameters ranging from 150 to 30 mm. But what, exactly, happens to someone’s glottis whilst they are playing a didgerdoo? One way of finding out is to make a video […]
Tag: voice
Detecting nervousness on the telephone (patent)
Businesses need a way to detect nervousness on the telephone, says a recent patent, which offers a computerised means of accomplishing this. Inventor Valery Petrushin obtained his doctorate in computer science from the Glushkov Institute for Cybernetics, Kiev, and now works in Illinois in the US. His patent, granted last year, is for “detecting emotion in voice […]
The Semen Quality of Deep-Voiced Men [study]
NOTE: We suggest you invite a deep-voiced man to real this aloud to you, in a public place. “Low Pitched Voices Are Perceived as Masculine and Attractive but Do They Predict Semen Quality in Men?” Leigh W. Simmons [pictured here], Marianne Peters [shown here, below, evaluating a male], Gillian Rhodes, PLoS ONE 6(12): e29271. The […]
NOAA’s stormy robo-version of “Deck the Halls”
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s automated voice sang the song “Deck the Halls”. If you can weather hearing it, you can weather practically anything. [HT @SaraZielinski]