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Ron Scherer (right) discusses "M5" experiments with Inoka Nanayakkara (left), a master's degree student doing research on vocal fold anatomy, and Nandhakumar Radhakrishnan (center), a doctoral student researching Hindustani singing.

Scherer, collaborators seek answers to mysteries of voice

How does airflow through the human larynx become sound? How are the wide ranges of pitch and loudness in our voices created, and when does a voice sound “natural”?

The questions may seem basic, but the answers are still unknown. Finding them is among the goals of a long-term research project led by Ronald Scherer, communication disorders.

Scherer and collaborators from Purdue University and the universities of Toledo and Cincinnati are in the third year of a second, four-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to study phonation using aerodynamic and acoustic models. The $2.5 million in grant funding is divided among the four participating universities .

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