In 2020, scientists recreated a vowel-like sound from an Egyptian mummy after 3,000 years

Scientists have astonishingly recreated a single vowel sound from an ancient Egyptian priest, Nesyamun, who lived 3,000 years ago. Using advanced CT scans, 3D printing, and vocal science, researchers ...
Los Angeles Times

Vowel sounds made by baboons show that the roots of human speech may go back 25 million years

Listen closely to those baboon calls. They may tell you a thing or two about human speech. Scientists who studied baboons’ wahoos, yaks, barks and other vocalizations have found evidence of five vowel ...

The way you say one vowel determines your social class, claims study

The research, based on detailed acoustic analysis of 109 speakers, shows the feature remains remarkably stable despite ...
The Conversation

Examining how primates make vowel sounds pushes timeline for speech evolution back by 27 million years

Sound doesn’t fossilize. Language doesn’t either. Even when writing systems have developed, they’ve represented full-fledged and functional languages. Rather than preserving the first baby steps ...
PBS

Short e Vowel Sound

Anna Scretching-Cole helps children learn about the short e vowel sounds. Learn about short e with Anna Scretching-Cole. The short e vowel sounds often appear in the middle of words like web and bed.
Medical Xpress

Associating colours with vowels? Almost everyone does

Does [a:] as in baa sound more green or more red? And is [i:] as in beet light or dark in colour? Even though we perceive speech and colour are perceived with different sensory organs, nearly everyone ...
People

Study Finds Dolphins Can Make Human Vowel Sounds as Experts Launch AI-Powered Dolphin Translation

The paper is released for public view weeks after Google announced its AI model, DolphinGemma, which is set to revolutionize dolphin communication Getty Research reveals that dolphins can mimic human ...