Kdopak to mluví: O nekonečných možnostech lidského hlasu | E. Zaepernicková | TEDxCharlesUniversity

The human voice – or rather the vocal tract – offers endless possibilities. Eliška illustrates these options in here speech so the audience can meet a screaming man, an insecure shy speaker, a lecturer who doesn’t manage his talk, so he “talks a blue streak”, or even a slow bore. She also shows an audio from the real conversations and subjects it to listening as well as instrumental analysis.

Eliška is a first year student of Master degree programme General Linguistics and Phonetics. In her research, she always tries to connect these two fields and to see everything in context. During this academic orientation, it is hard to switch off, because the speech is ubiquitous. When Eliška wants to escape this all from time to time, she likes to hang out in the forests of Šumava region, buzz about at flea markets or visit the theater – where it is a little harder not to listen again. Eliška has a so called flat intonation but she balances it with rich gestures.

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