"It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each
speech is an arrangement of notes
that will never be played again." -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby



The sound of human speech has often been compared to music.  It is commonly mimicked by various musical instruments.  The subtleties of voice have long been inspirational to musicians' playing styles, and the sound of the human speaking has been revered as beautiful by such geniuses as Walt Whitman and F. Scott Fitzgerald.  The scientists at the Institute of Quirky Research have thus taken it upon themselves, as an aid to sound connoiseurs and an inspiration to musicians alike, to collect audio data of the human voice from various sources and to analyze the various tonal and pitch-based patterns from the rationale of modern western musical notation.

In layman's terms, we're going to analyze "speech as an arrangement of notes."

Site Contents:

Legend for Vocal Data Readout

Case study I

Case study II

Case study III

Conclusions

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