A viral clip showed a journalist slipping from her "broadcast voice" to her natural Boston accent. The typical broadcast speech pattern, which lacks a regional accent, is a holdover from the 1970s. An ...

Neel Bhatt is an assistant professor of Otolaryngology at the University of Washington. This story originally featured in The Conversation. As a surgeon who specializes in treating patients with voice ...

The vocal sounds of humans -- laughing, crying, and the babbling of babies -- have the same rhythmic quality as the sounds made by many mammals, songbirds, and even some species of fish. Researchers ...

Human brains still react to chimp voices, hinting at a deep evolutionary link in how we recognize sound.

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 ...

The ability to detect vocal sounds, and the more specialized skill of recognizing calls from one's own species, is supported by evolutionarily ancient brain mechanisms, according to a new study from ...

Cowbirds are special among songbirds for the "watery" timbre of their singing, which resembles the sound of falling droplets striking water, a quick burst followed by a fading ripple.

Microscopic image of neurons (green) in the brain stem that regulate tempo of animal sounds and coordinate vocalization with breathing. Image credit: Yackle Lab The vocal sounds of humans – laughing, ...