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- Original title:Mysteries of the Human Voice
- Category:Movie / Documentary
- Released:2014
- Director:Stefan Moore
- Actors:Bettina Dalton,Iain Morley,Sophie Scott
- Writer:Maria Ceballos-Wallis,Henri Ehrlich
- Duration:52min
- Video type:Movie
- Rating 6.3
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The human voice has evolved over 200,000 years. Not even the most advanced computer synthesizers and talking robots ever devised can begin to reproduce its extraordinary complexity and ...
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The human voice has evolved over 200,000 years. Not even the most advanced computer synthesizers and talking robots ever devised can begin to reproduce its extraordinary complexity and emotional power. But recently, scientists have made a remarkable discovery with disturbing implications - we respond to even the most artificial voices as though they are real, using the same parts of our brains to interact with machines as we do with other humans.
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
 | Bettina Dalton | - | Narrator (voice) |
 | Iain Morley | - | Himself, lecturer in palaeoanthropology, University of Oxford |
| Sophie Scott | - | Herself, neuroscientist, University College London |
| Clifford Nass | - | Himself - professor of communication, Stanford University |
| Isobel Kirk | - | Herself - executive voice director, Sydney |
| David M. Howard | - | Himself, professor, University of York |
| Jean Abitbol | - | Himself, otorhinolaryngologist, Faculté de Médecine de Paris |
| Christine Kitamura | - | Herself, psychologist, University of New South Wales |
| Branka Zei Pollermann | - | Herself, psychologist, Vox Institute à Genève |
 | Angélique Kidjo | - | Herself |
| Maho Kurashima | - | Herself, vocal coach |
| Anne Karpf | - | Herself, author of book 'The Human Voice' |
| Krzysztof Izdebski | - | Himself - founder and chairman, Pacific Voice and Speech Foundation |
| Hideyuki Sawada | - | Himself, professor, Faculty of Engineering, Kagawa University |
| Yoshio Matsumoto | - | Himself, Service Robotics Research Group, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology |