Creating a (synthetic) song from a zebra finch's muscle

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Recent research on zebra finches reveals that the muscles in their vocal organs work together to produce sound, contradicting earlier studies that suggested each muscle controlled a single acoustic feature. This collaborative action among the muscles is crucial for song creation. The findings enhance our understanding of avian vocalization mechanisms and could inform synthetic song generation techniques.

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Birds create songs by moving muscles in their vocal organs to vibrate air passing through their tissues. While previous research reported that each of the different muscles controls one acoustic feature, new research shows that these muscles act in concert to create sound.
from - https://phys.org/news/2018-07-synthetic-song-zebra-finch-muscle.html

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