The Science and Technology of Speaking

Author: Ma Dayou
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Publish Date: 2004-09-01
Features: Human hearing is an instinct, innate from birth, but speaking is learned. Through learning and training, children can mobilize their vocal organs to produce a variety of sounds, which is indeed a marvelous behavior. Studying human vocalization involves multiple disciplines, holding significant importance in fields such as linguistics, acoustics, medicine, physics, manufacturing, environmental science, architecture, statistics, and even computer science. At the very least, the research on speech has given rise to speech synthesizers, with the well-known British scientist Professor Stephen Hawking using it for creative and research purposes. Therefore, the science and technology behind speech is truly worth reading about.