Researchers from the Lincoln Laboratory have found early evidence that subtle changes in peoples' voices may indicate whether they have been infected by COVID-19- even before they develop symptoms.

The sounds that most animals use to communicate are innate, not learned. However, a few species, including humans, can imitate new sounds and use them in appropriate social contexts. This ability, ...

It turns out vocal fry, what the Internet is reporting as a new linguistic trend "creeping" into women's speech isn't much of a trend at all. A writeup of the research describes the speech pattern as ...

A new study of geladas – a species of monkey living in the highlands of Ethiopia – has revealed that their long and complex vocal sequences follow a pattern seen in many human languages: the longer ...

In the near future, smartphone apps and wearables could help diagnose disease with short voice samples. Charles Marmar has been a psychiatrist for 40 years, but when a combat veteran steps into his ...