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Great resource page with links to lots of sites dealing with music perception

Vocal tract and acoustics.Overview of vocal tract and acoustics of voice

Vocal cords in action.Includes movies of vocal cords and vocal tract in action.

Do it yourself sonification This website allows you to input a photograph or image of your own making and then experience it as a sonified representation.

Speech-like sounds can be synthesized by combinations of just a few sinewave signals. Called "sinewave speech" these synthesized utterances may initially be unintelligible, but once you know what the speaker is trying to say, you can then recognize the utterance. Here and here.

Here's a website where you can experience the McGurk effect, wherein visualization of a speaker's mouth influences what you hear the speaker saying.

Mothers unwittingly speak to their infants with a higher pitch to their voices. Examples of "motherese" being spoken.

Learn more about absolute pitch perception and other interesting aspects of musical experience.

Mondegreens are amusing errors in auditory perception: they are popular words, phrases or songs that are misperceived. Thus for example, "from sea to Chinese sea" in the song American the Beautiful would constitute a mondegreen. Here are some classic mondegreens.

Listen to some ragas.

Listen to the laughs discussed in Chapter 12.

More on laughter

Examples of computer synthesized sounds in which pitch height and pitch chroma vary.








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