Uploaded September 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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How do waves become voices? What are accents? How is singing different from speaking? What is yodeling? What is synthetic speech? Why are animal sounds different? This video illustrates how waves become voices, with human and animal sounds. It complements the book “Everyday Physics: Waves – from Sounds and Light to Tsunamis and Gravitation”, by Michel A. Van Hove, pub. World Scientific 2024.

Licensed under CC BY-NC

Credits: Jean-Paul Bibérian, Akari Chan, Che Ting Chan, Walter Gander, Klaus Heinz, Klaus E. Hermann, Martin Ho Yin Yeung, Christopher J. Keyes, Pradeep Kumar, dog Lucky, Guancong Ma, Christian Minot, John Pendry, John Rehr, Miquel Salmeron, Carlo Schirru, Xue-Cheng Tai, Leihan Tang, Sheng-Wei Wang, Sasa Xiao, Martin Ho Yin Yeung, Changsong Zhou, and dog Lucky

Music: “Lonely Light” from soundcloud.com/inossi

See all other videos here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWIjtByUJvcvTWJMBCZvmI8mfgnomQVHW

Reference book: “Everyday Physics: Waves – from Sounds and Light to Tsunamis and Gravitation”, author Michel A. Van Hove, published by World Scientific 2024

Read more: doi.org/10.1142/13501