Language training helps staff soften spoken vowel sounds to produce a more authentic accent.
Some 39% could not hear and say short vowel sounds within words such as "pen", "hat" and "dog".
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The warm-up is a series of exercises with the five basic vowel sounds.
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"I'm pretty sure if I had done that before, I wouldn't have the horrible vowel sounds that I do!"
For example, a Swedish lullaby, Mors Lilla Olle (Mother's Little Olle), has eight different vowel sounds, in four rhyming pairs.
Similar computer controls were developed to make the animated characters' cheeks puff and lips narrow according to the vowel sounds uttered.
The SaypU spelling of "top" and "run" have had to be tweaked to take into account the different vowel sounds of American and British English.
Much hinges on whether Neanderthals, who lived in Europe from 85, 000 to 35, 000 years ago, could manage the wide variety of vowel sounds that modern humans can utter.
There is also the "vocal tract" - everything upwards of the larynx along with the mouth, which are well known in humans to shape sung notes and subtle vowel sounds.
And yet, until what my friend Karen McGrane refers to as bionic hearing is no longer stigma-free, people will go on nodding blankly to vowel sounds they cannot distinguish.
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Not only are higher frequencies responsible for the crispness of sound and for being able to cut through background noise, but the comprehension of spoken language relies heavily on vowel sounds in these higher registers.
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