The human voice consists of sound made by a human being
using the vocal tract, including what?
A: Talking, singing, laughing, crying, screaming, shouting, humming or
yelling.
The human voice frequency is specifically a part of
human sound production in which the vocal cords are what?
A: The primary sound source.
Generally speaking, the mechanism for generating the
human voice can be subdivided into what three parts?
A: The lungs, the vocal folds within the larynx (voice box), and the
articulators.
The lungs, the "pump" must produce adequate airflow and
air pressure to do what?
A: Vibrate vocal cords.
The vocal cords then vibrate to use airflow from the
lungs to create audible pulses that form what?
A: The laryngeal sound source.
The muscles of the larynx adjust the length and tension
of what?
A: The vocal cords to 'fine-tune' pitch and tone.
What do the articulators (the parts of the vocal tract
above the larynx consisting of tongue, palate, cheek, lips, etc.) do?
A: Articulate and filter the sound emanating from the larynx and to some
degree can interact with the laryngeal airflow to strengthen or weaken it as
a sound source.
The tone of voice may be modulated to suggest emotions
such as what?
A: Anger, surprise, fear, happiness or sadness.
The human voice is used to express emotion and can also
reveal what?
A: The age and sex of the speaker.
Singers use the human voice as an instrument for what?
A: Creating music.
Adult men and women typically have different sizes of
what?
A: Vocal cords reflecting the male-female differences in larynx size.
Adult male voices are usually what?
A: Lower-pitched.
Men, generally speaking, have a larger vocal tract,
which essentially gives the resultant voice a what?
A: A lower-sounding timbre. This is mostly independent of the vocal cords
themselves.
Human spoken language makes use of the ability of
almost all people in a given society to do what?
A: To dynamically modulate certain parameters of the laryngeal voice source
in a consistent manner.
What are the most important communicative, or phonetic,
parameters?
A: They are the voice pitch (determined by the vibratory frequency of the
vocal cords) and the degree of separation of the vocal cords.
Singers can learn to project sound in certain ways so
that it resonates better within their what?
A: Vocal tract.
This is known as vocal what?
A: Resonation.
There are how many areas that may be listed as possible
vocal resonators?
A: Seven.
In sequence from the lowest within the body to the
highest, these areas are what?
A: the chest, the tracheal tree, the larynx itself, the pharynx, the oral
cavity, the nasal cavity, and the sinuses.
There are many disorders that affect the human voice;
these include what?
A: Speech impediments, and growths and lesions on the vocal folds.
Talking improperly for long periods of time causes
what?
A: Vocal loading, which is stress inflicted on the speech organs.
Voice therapy is generally delivered by a what?
A: Speech-language pathologist.