<p><strong>‘A lively, intelligent and persuasive history of speech...Expertly and patiently explained’ <em>The Times</em></strong></p> <p><strong>Why are human beings the only animals that can speak? And why does it matter?</strong></p> <p>If you’ve ever felt the shock of listening to a recording of your own voice, you realise how important your voice is to your personal identity. We judge others ? and whether we trust them ? not just by their words but by the way they talk: their intonation, their pitch, their accent.</p> <p><em>Now You’re Talking</em> explores the full range of our voice ? how we speak and how we sing; how our vocal anatomy works; what happens when things go wrong; and how technology enables us to imitate and manipulate the human voice.</p> <p>Trevor Cox talks to vocal coaches who help people to develop their new voice after a gender transition; to record producers whose use of technology has transformed the singing voice; and to computer scientists who replicate the human voice in their development of artificial intelligence.</p> <p>Beginning with the Neanderthals, <em>Now You’re Talking</em> takes us all the way to the digital age ? with the frightening prospect that we may soon hear ‘Unexpected item in the bagging area’ more frequently than a friendly ‘Hello, how are you?’ in the street.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。