Music and speech are among the most frequent types of sounds we hear. But how do we identify what we think are differences between the two? An international team of researchers mapped out this process ...

In musical evaluations, the "sight-over-sound" effect—where visual information overrides auditory input—is frequently observed, calling into question the assumption that sound is the dominant factor ...

Researchers explore how anatomical variations in a speaker's vocal tract affect speech production. Using MRI, the team recorded the shape of the vocal tract for 41 speakers as the subjects produced a ...

Bark is a universal text-to-audio model that can not only create realistic speech, it can incorporate music, background noises, and sound effects. It can even include non-speech sounds like laughter, ...

The technique, called AudioLM, generates naturalistic sounds without the need for human annotation. A new AI system can create natural-sounding speech and music after being prompted with a few seconds ...