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| 1 | What the voice can tell us | 9 |
| 2 | How the voice achieves its range and power | 21 |
| 3 | How we colour our voices with pitch, volume, and tempo | 33 |
| 4 | What makes the voice distinctly human | 48 |
| 5 | The impact of the mother's voice (even in the womb) | 62 |
| 6 | Mothertalk : the melody of intimacy | 83 |
| 7 | The emergence of the baby's voice | 94 |
| 8 | Do I really sound like that? | 113 |
| 9 | How our emotions shape the sounds we make (and other people hear them) | 133 |
| 10 | Male and female voices : stereotyped or different? | 153 |
| 11 | How men and women's voices are changing (and why) | 172 |
| 12 | Cultural differences in the voice | 182 |
| 13 | From oral to literate society | 199 |
| 14 | The public voice | 213 |
| 15 | How technology has transformed the voice | 234 |
| 16 | Voiceprints and voice theft | 255 |
| 17 | How people and corporations are trying to change the voice | 274 |
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Tammy Southerland
reviewed Human Voice: How This Extraordinary Instrument Reveals Essential Clues About Who We Are on October 17, 2008 Human Voice: How This Extraordinary Instrument Reveals Essential Clues About Who We Are
This is a powerful book on our voice, our ability to speak and understand each other, almost meditative in its scope- ranging over specialities, mashing rigorous research with anectodal evidence to form a picture that speaks out.
The 288 pages of text are followed with nearly 80 pages of notes and 16 pages of select bibiliography. It is clear from every sentence that Anne Karpf has fished far and wide, and has not come empty-handed. It is a delight for those who want to have perspective on what communication means to us, especially the vocal.
After reading this book, I pay more attention to the tone and the tenor of voices, an evidence of this book's success.
To review this book and do it justice, I think I will have to work over eight hours, supposing that I am capable of doing that.
Anyway, this is one book I want at my table, to take it back and read again.
I recommend this book to everyone with time on their hands, and some patience and then love for the splendour of our capabilities and an appreciation for the oddity of human existence.
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Add Human Voice: How This Extraordinary Instrument Reveals Essential Clues About Who We Are, Dazzling and groundbreaking, the first book to explore something so fundamental that most of us take it for granted. What is more amazing about the voice: its central importance to human society, or our widespread disregard for it? From an early, Human Voice: How This Extraordinary Instrument Reveals Essential Clues About Who We Are to the inventory that you are selling on WonderClubX
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Add Human Voice: How This Extraordinary Instrument Reveals Essential Clues About Who We Are, Dazzling and groundbreaking, the first book to explore something so fundamental that most of us take it for granted. What is more amazing about the voice: its central importance to human society, or our widespread disregard for it? From an early, Human Voice: How This Extraordinary Instrument Reveals Essential Clues About Who We Are to your collection on WonderClub |
