Abstract: The diphthong /ai/, /au/ and /oi/ are sounds that are widely used in the pronunciation of the language and dialects of Malay language. However, the pronunciation of the diphthongs is claimed ...

The way sperm whales communicate may be more similar to human language than previously thought. The acoustic properties of whale calls resemble vowels, a defining feature of human language, according ...

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The mammals' mysterious clicks contain a stunning level of complexity, a new study shows. A group of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) swims together in the Indian Ocean. For years, researchers ...

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Creating an issue in case my comment at the closed PR #9527 falls through the cracks. I just updated SE to 4.0.12, and I'm afraid the new merged waveform + spectrogram is not workable for me. As you ...

Rick Rojas and Eduardo Medina report on the South for The Times and are natives of Texas and Alabama, respectively. They don’t think they have accents. April 4, 2025 The third season of “The White ...

Example spectrograms showing the electric moped sounds and the imitations produced by Chinese Blackbirds. (A)–(B) Three examples of locking sound, unlocking sound, and alarms from three brands of ...