Shell people used their own vocal cords and diaphragms but sound issued through microphones rather than mouths.

Most salamanders are considered voiceless but the California giant salamander ( Dicamptodon ensatus ) has vocal cords and can produce a rattling or barking sound.

In most species, the sound is produced by expelling air from the lungs over the vocal cords into an air sac or sacs in the throat or at the corner of the mouth.

In addition to singing words, some a cappella singers also emulate instrumentation by reproducing the melody with their vocal cords.

Voiceless consonants are produced with the vocal cords open and voiced consonants are produced when the vocal folds are fractionally closed.

Voiceless aspiration occurs when the vocal cords remain open after a consonant is released.

An easy way to measure this is by noting the consonant's voice onset time, as the voicing of a following vowel cannot begin until the vocal cords close.

Breathy voice ( also called murmured voice, soughing, or susurration ) is a phonation in which the vocal cords vibrate, as they do in normal ( modal ) voicing, but are held further apart, so that a larger volume of air escapes between them.

One is to hold the vocal cords apart, so that they are lax as they are for, but to increase the volume of airflow so that they vibrate loosely.

A second is to bring the vocal cords closer together along their entire length than in voiceless, but not as close as in modally voiced sounds such as vowels.

This results in the vocal cords being drawn together for voicing in the back, but separated to allow the passage of large volumes of air in the front.

The distinction between the latter two of these realizations, vocal cords somewhat separated along their length ( breathy voice ) and vocal cords together with the arytenoids making an opening ( whispery voice ), is phonetically relevant in White Hmong.

* The phonation of a consonant is how the vocal cords vibrate during the articulation.

When the vocal cords vibrate fully, the consonant is called voiced ; when they do not vibrate at all, it is voiceless.

Operating through small, child-sized vocal cords, their voices were also extraordinarily flexible, and quite different from the equivalent adult female voice.

Gastrointestinal problems can be part of CMT, as can chewing, swallowing, and speaking ( as vocal cords atrophy ).

" Voice " or " voicing " distinguishes whether a particular sound is either " voiced " ( when the vocal cords vibrate ) or " unvoiced " ( when they do not ).

He spat it out immediately, but was furious because his vocal cords could have been damaged if he had swallowed any of it.

The glottis is defined as the combination of the vocal folds ( vocal cords ) and the space in between the folds ( the rima glottidis ).

Achilles, knowing the weak spot of his old armor, which Hector now wears, is at the neck, stabs his spear through the armor into Hector's throat but misses the vocal cords.

An alternative spelling in English is ' vocal chords ', possibly due to the musical connotations or to confusion with the geometrical definition of the word " chord ".

While both spellings have historical precedence, standard American spelling is ' vocal cords '.

George Bernard Shaw, famous writer, critic and playwright, was a highly vocal critic of English spelling because it lacked a coherent system for representing the phonemes of English accurately.

They are less vocal now, when it is the West Berliners who are migrating.

Claude Jannequin's vocal description of a battle ( the French equivalents of tarantara, rum-tum-tum, and boom-boom-boom are very picturesque ) is lots of fun, and the singers get a sense of grace and shape into other chansons by Jannequin and Lassus.

" The second exercise is the " Whispered Ah ," which is used to coordinate and free breathing & vocal production.

As an example among performance-art applications, the Alexander technique is used and taught by classically trained vocal coaches and musicians.

His instrumental music, though not without interest, is curiously antiquated as compared with his vocal works.

Gregorian chant is an example of a cappella singing, as is the majority of secular vocal music from the Renaissance.

The shofar is used by itself, without any vocal accompaniment, and is limited to a very strictly defined set of sounds and specific places in the synagogue service.

* In music recording, autocorrelation is used as a pitch detection algorithm prior to vocal processing, as a distortion effect or to eliminate undesired mistakes and inaccuracies.

" It is written in short phrases in order to be acted rather than sung ... tailor-made for Glynis Johns, who lacks the vocal power to sustain long phrases.

Afrobeat is a combination of traditional Yoruba music, jazz, highlife, funk and chanted vocals, fused with percussion and vocal styles, popularised in Africa in the 1970s.

As in the Ninth Symphony, the vocal forces sing a theme first played instrumentally, and this theme is highly reminiscent of the corresponding theme in the Ninth Symphony ( for a detailed comparison, see Choral Fantasy ).

This vocal style was influenced by Quorthon of Bathory, and is one of the traits that distinguishes traditional black metal vocals from those of death metal, which usually uses low-pitched growls.

Western Khmer, also called Cardamom Khmer or Chanthaburi Khmer, spoken by a very small, isolated population in the Cardamom mountain range extending from western Cambodia into eastern Central Thailand, although little studied, is unique in that it maintains a definite system of vocal register that has all but disappeared in other dialects of modern Khmer.

* Cerdd Dant ( string music ) or Canu Penillion ( verse singing ) is the art of vocal improvisation over a given melody in Welsh musical tradition.

Interpretation, naturally, remains the role of the therapist, but orientation -- not only the patient's vocal giveaways of geographical and socio-economic background, but also vocal but non-verbal giveaways of danger spots in his relationship to people -- can be considerably beefed up by the linguist.

" Through Methodism, Wesley's teachings also inspire a large scholarly following, with vocal proponents including J. Kenneth Grider, Stanley Hauerwas, Thomas Oden, Thomas Jay Oord, and William Willimon.

Armida was translated into German and widely performed, especially in the northern German states, where it helped to establish Salieri's reputation as an important and innovative modern composer It would also be the first opera to receive a serious preparation in a piano and vocal reduction by Carl Friedrich Cramer in 1783.

Today, a cappella also includes sample / loop " vocal only " productions by producers like Jimmy Spice Curry, Teddy Riley, Björk, Imogen Heap, Wyclef Jean and others.

A cappella can also describe the practice of using just the vocal track ( s ) from a multitrack, instrumental recording to be remixed or put onto vinyl records for DJs.

Chording keyboards are also used as portable but two handed input devices for the visually impaired ( either combined with a refreshable braille display or vocal synthesis ).

However, it was also reported that use of creaky voice ( vocal fry ) has possibly been spreading among American women across the nation.

In the experimental post 1960s eras, which saw the development of free jazz and jazz-rock fusion, some of the influential bassists included Charles Mingus ( 1922 – 1979 ), who was also a composer and bandleader whose music fused hard bop with black gospel music, free jazz and classical music ; free jazz and post-bop bassist Charlie Haden ( born 1937 ) is best known for his long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman and for his role in the 1970s-era Liberation Music Orchestra, an experimental group ; Eddie Gomez and George Mraz, who played with Bill Evans and Oscar Peterson, respectively, and are both acknowledged to have furthered expectations of pizzicato fluency and melodic phrasing, fusion virtuoso Stanley Clarke ( born 1951 ) is notable for his dexterity on both the upright bass and the electric bass, and Terry Plumeri, noted for his horn-like arco fluency and vocal tone.

Dubbing, also known as rerecording, is the post-production process, used in filmmaking and video production, in which vocal recording ( usually dialogue ) occurs subsequent to the original recording stage.

Singer Neil Hannon also provided Ted's vocal in the " enhanced " version of My Lovely Horse, which later appeared as a B-side on the band's single Gin Soaked Boy.

Gardner would also join the Historical Association, being elected Co-President of its Bournemouth and Christchurch branch in June 1944, following which he became a vocal supporter for the construction of a local museum for the Christchurch borough.

In some cases complementary full settings for organ are also published, in others organists and other accompanists are expected to transcribe the four-part vocal score for their instrument of choice.

The vibrato might also be achieved via rapid glottal ( vocal fold ) opening and closing, especially on draws ( inhalation ) simultaneous to bending, or without bending.

In the late 1990s, Kemp also was a vocal advocate for free market reform in Africa, arguing that the continent had great economic growth potential if it could shed autocratic and statist governmental policies.

Moon also enjoyed singing, particularly giving backing vocals that involved a light-sounding falsetto, and he adored the vocal styling of Motown soul music.

It is also a term used by recording engineers translated as " empty track " meaning there is no vocal track.

The Sega Saturn also has a " mute vocals " feature that is based on the same principle and is also able to adjust the pitch of the song to match the singer's vocal range.

It is also an accompanying instrument, especially in vocal works, often realizing a basso continuo or playing a written-out accompaniment.

Often the concept is only used for the production of consonants, even though the movement of the articulators will also greatly alter the resonant properties of the vocal tract, thereby changing the formant structure of speech sounds that is crucial for the identification of vowels.