Questions tagged [vocalizations]
For questions about vocalizations, such as a creature's voice or the sound of the creature's voice. If your question is about the language itself, use [language] instead.
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What sounds could a (~15ft humanoid) Giant make? [duplicate]
The first question of what will likely be a kind of "mini series" of giant-related questions I have!
TL;DR - creating a giant race. Average height is approximately 15ft, they are intelligent ...
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What If Bears Evolved Speech, What Would Their Voices Sound Like? [duplicate]
What if in a alternate reality,
every bear on planet Earth
suddenly evolve and became sapient like humans, and evolve the ability of speech, but realistically, what would their voices sound like?
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Universal Phonetic Alphabet
In the story I am developing, there is an intergalactic community with a plethora of different sentient species, each with its own languages that vary depending own its vocal anatomy.
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What sounds could these dragons make? [closed]
The firedragons are a sort of dragonic hybrid that mixes many aquatic and amphibious forms
Their mouth is like a snake, with a sheathed tongue in the chin and a glottis. The glottis, however, is ...
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How do you gag a fish-person without tape?
The fish-people are hybrids of fish and humans: They have bodies akin to standard teleost fish, such as carp or salmon, with a face, brain, and throat like a human. While it would be quite easy to ...
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Why would a language created by humans lack both the /s/ and the /z/ consonants? [closed]
In my story, there are a strange species from the Homo genus: hematophagous humans often called vampires (their scientific name is Homo haematophagus) (so, they are still humans, just not Homo sapiens)...
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How to gag a snout without tape or muzzles?
Long snouts are hard to gag. Unlike the great roundness of the human head, a snout is narrow and has a monotonous cross-sectional area that is excellent at getting binding to slip. Tape can alleviate ...
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Why would a language have three rhotic phonemes?
In my world, there is a mammalian species from the Homo genus called "ogres" (their scientific name is Homo obesus) (they are still humans, just not Homo sapiens) (Homo obesus means "...
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Why would a language created by humans lack the /j/ semivowel and even the /i/ vowel?
What I mean is the /j/ sound (as in English "yellow" and French hyène) (hyène means hyena) is the most common semivowel around the world. This phoneme is highly conserved in Indo-European ...
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How can a repressive government quickly but non-permanently disable human vocal cords in a way that allows only that government to restore them?
Exactly what it says on the tin: how can a repressive government quickly but non-permanently disable human vocal cords in a way that allows only that government to restore them?
Said government uses ...
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Methods to allow dragons and humanoid animals to speak like humans?
The design of an animal's body and head are different than that of a human, so I am wondering what things I could modify about a dragon or humanoid animal in order to allow it to speak with a normal ...
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Human-level Vocalization through insect-like methods. Possible or absurd?
I'm making a species of sapient human sized creatures that look and act like insects in many ways (except the majority of their entrails, because scaling up arthropods is probably even harder to ...
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How can a mute cast spells that require incantation during medieval times? [closed]
In order for magic to manifest in this world, one has to recite a specific incantation following a visualization of the anticipated result, and only then will the magic occur. Amazingly, many students ...
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Lizardmen and vocalization, which sounds are impossible for them to make?
Okay, so, I decided to give both dragons and tengu a rather complex syrinx, allowing them to mimic human speech, chainsaws, cameras shutters, ringtones, and copyrighted music with ease.
Lizardfolk, ...
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Artificially make people incapable of singing at all (even poorly), but still capable of speaking?
Magic has recently become possible in my story, and singing is the mechanism by which humans use magic. A totalitarian regime wants citizens who can speak, but not sing in any way, even poorly. (That ...
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What exactly would a talking dragon's voice sound like?
I'm developing an independent cartoon web series with talking dragons. The designs of the dragons in Spyro (especially the Legend of Spyro) is one of the main influences in how I want my dragons to ...
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How might a purely mechanical 'voice' function?
In my world there are mechanical semi-humanoid automata.
Would it be possible to make them speak in a fashion that sounds natural (i.e. human)? How might it function?
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Planet-wide vocalizations: is there a natural limit preventing it?
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I recently recalled when the Chelyabinsk meteor crashed overhead in 2013. The pressure wave was immense. The infrasounds, as recorded by nuclear missile detectors, appeared to traverse the ...
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What sounds would be common for both forms for a human/wolf shapeshifter?
Here's a world much like Earth, except it's inhabited by a race of shapeshifters. On one side of the appearance divide there is an appearance much like a large Earth wolf; on the other is an ...
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How would a non-ossified hyoid bone affect the vocal range of a humanoid?
Lately, I have been working on the way a group of humanoids vocalizes. In the anatomy of vocalization, I have recently asked about and explored some variation in vocal cords.
The hyoid bone ...
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How would having two pairs of vocal cords affect the voice of a humanoid?
If a humanoid had a second pair of vocal cords or similarly functioning structures under the primary vocal cords, what would be the effect on the voice? Would this allow the humanoid to sing with two ...
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Could An Intelligent Werewolf Talk?
So I've got a werewolf species inspired by this Tumblr post. Basically, the default form is somewhere between human and wolf, but gets hairier and more muscular over the course of a month as the full ...
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What would an (tree person) Ent's voice be like? [closed]
We see Ents in certain fantasy settings, but what sort of voice might we actually expect them to have? Would they be capable of having a voice at all, or would they communicate in some other fashion?
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What would a Giant’s voice be like?
As per my previous question on giants, if the average human is 5′10″, and he is scaled up to 50 feet whilst remaining proportionately correct, would this have any effect on what he sounds like?
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Plausible sounds for a species without cheeks
I have an alien species that while similar to humans in many ways have mouths that are closer to muzzles. In short, they do not have cheeks like humans do. I realize that this will effect the sounds ...
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