Secrets of Beatboxing Revealed By MRI

Posted by samzenpus on Monday July 15, 2013 @02:38AM from the mind-of-doug-e-fresh dept.

united_notions writes "An international team from UCSD and Philips Research have published a paper (article paywalled; extensive free related resources at UCS here) in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, showing the results of real-time magnetic resonance imaging conducted on a beatboxing performer. The authors make interesting comparisons to sounds in many minority languages around the world (such as the 'click' consonants in many African languages); they also show how beatboxing sounds can be represented using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)."

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Live in Kalifornia, where Feinstein can earmark by raymorris · 2013-07-15 03:05 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Move to the People's Republic of Kalifornia, where Dianne Feinstein will earmark billions of dollars of taxpayer money for whatever stupid crap you want, in exchange for some favors of course.