Parrots, corvids and a variety of other birds aren't the only animals that can mimic human speech. According to a study published today, an orca, Orcinus orca, has been trained to mimic human speech (ref). The female orca, named Wikie, was captive-born at Marineland in Antibes, France, where she still lives.
Songbirds and parrots are the two groups of birds able to learn and mimic human speech. However, it has been found that the mynah bird, part of the starling family, can also be conditioned to learn and create human speech. Pet birds can be taught to speak by their owners by mimicking their voice.
Parrots also have long, muscular tongues that may be used in modifying sounds. Parrots also have forebrain areas involved in vocal learning and control of vocalization that are not found in other birds. African Gray Parrots are one of the most accomplished mimics.
Very few species have been observed imitating human behavior—only orcas, apes, elephants, dolphins and magpies—and now, that list has grown to include house cats.
Northern Mockingbird
What is this? The Northern Mockingbird is another bird that is known for its ability to mimic the sounds of other birds (and even humans!). One of its most impressive tricks is sounding like it's whistling. This bird is about 10 inches in length with greyish-brown upper parts and white under parts.
The cello is said to have the same range as the human voice. This feature gives it the power to evoke instinctual emotions. Songs can be transcribed from voice to cello, and the voice can find itself even within the sound of steel strings.
Voice cloning works by collecting audio data from the person you want to clone, feeding it into a neural network, and then analyzing the audio to recreate the person's voice. Once the machine has been trained, it can generate new audio that should sound identical to that person.
One of the most popular methods is to use voice recognition software. This software can be used to create a digital copy of someone's voice by recording them speaking and then analyzing their speech patterns.
Although some people might sound quite a bit alike, no two voices are ever exactly alike. We each have a unique voice because so many factors work together to produce that voice.
However, an AI voice cloner is a fascinating technology that can mimic any target voice that it's trained on with astonishing accuracy. This AI-powered tool uses deep learning algorithms to analyze and understand the intricacies of a real person and their voice, including tone, pitch, and cadence.
Singing is also thought to be genetic because gender can affect your voice; differences in the size of the larynx mean men have deeper voices while women have higher, breathier tones. The natural timbre of your voice is determined by genetics, but you can learn how to train and develop your voice.
There are two ways to go: by using voice-altering software, or by using text-to-speech software. The most popular and effective voice-changing software uses artificial intelligence (AI) that learns how to mimic your voice.
Quickly evolving in sophistication, some AI voice-generating software requires just a few sentences of audio to convincingly produce speech that conveys the sound and emotional tone of a speaker's voice, while other options need as little as three seconds.
Microsoft has shown off its latest research in text-to-speech AI with a model called VALL-E that can simulate someone's voice from just a three-second audio sample, Ars Technica has reported. The speech can not only match the timbre but also the emotional tone of the speaker, and even the acoustics of a room.
Besides humans, some of the most skilled vocal learners include parrots, songbirds, dolphins, and beluga whales.
Whether you refer to your internal voice as your inner dialogue, self-talk, internal speech, or stream of consciousness, an internal monologue is the voice inside your head that you can “hear” when you think.
Voices are ranked from high to low. Women's voices are divided into three groups: soprano, mezzo-soprano, and contralto. Men's voices are divided into four groups : countertenor, tenor, baritone, and bass.
A team of scientists from the University of Texas at Austin has developed an AI model that can read your thoughts. The noninvasive AI system known as semantic decoder lays emphasis on translating brain activity into a stream of texts according to the peer-reviewed study published in the journal Nature Neuroscience.
Artificial intelligence is based on the principle that human intelligence can be defined in a way that a machine can easily mimic it and execute tasks, from the most simple to those that are even more complex. The goals of artificial intelligence include mimicking human cognitive activity.
People tend to change the pitch of their voice depending on who they are talking to, and how dominant they feel, a study has found. People tend to change the pitch of their voice depending on who they are talking to, and how dominant they feel, a study by the University of Stirling has found.
Your voice may change twice in your lifetime – first, due to hormones and, later, to aging. It's a good idea to listen to what your voice is telling you, especially as you age.
Researchers found that, "Both sexes used a lower-pitched voice and showed a higher level of physiological arousal when speaking to the more attractive, opposite-sex target.
It may not surprise you that genetic factors influence vocal quality. After all, voice qualities are largely determined by the size and shape of your larynx, neck, throat and facial structures all determined by genetics. But the influence of environment is too strong to be ignored.
You receive 50% of your genes from each of your parents, but the percentages of DNA you received from ancestors at the grandparent level and further back are not necessarily neatly divided in two with each generation.
Although how a child's voice develops owes something to mimicry of their parents, people from the same family will often sound alike because laryngeal anatomy is dictated by your ancestral DNA just like every other physical trait. It's the slight variations around this anatomy that make our voices distinct.