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the original instrument, played by air and meaning, never quite the same twice.
means The sound a person or animal makes through the mouth when speaking or singing — and, by extension, one's distinctive way of expressing thoughts or being heard.
from From Latin 'vox' (voice, sound, utterance), which traveled through Old French 'vois' before settling into English. The Latin root is part of a wide family that gave us 'vocal,' 'vocation' (literally a calling), and 'vowel' — the very sounds the voice opens to let air sing through. Far back, it likely traces to a Proto-Indo-European root *wekw-, 'to speak,' a cousin of words for speech across many old tongues.
- unique print
- Each voice is identifiable like a fingerprint
- hear yourself
- You hear your voice through skull bone too
- vocal lifespan
- Voices deepen and crack during puberty permanently
- two-cord engine
- Just two folds vibrate hundreds of times per second
- recording shock
- Recordings sound wrong because bone conduction vanishes
morgan freeman — actor whose deep, distinctive voice has narrated the shawshank redemption and won a golden globe for best supporting actor
freddie mercury — queen frontman with a 4-octave vocal range who performed live aid in 1985
gilbert gottfried — comedian known for his distinctive high-pitched, raspy voice used for iago in aladdin and as aflac duck spokesperson