Star Wars sound designer Ben Burtt created the character’s high-pitched, electronic chattering by combining his own voice and a synthesizer.The result is that R2-D2 produces two types of sound: ...

Whether on ESPN or CBS, it’s hard not to thing about the broadcast of The Masters without the always-memorable aspects of it. Yes, the voices of Scott Van Pelt and Jim Nantz are always welcome, as is ...

Birds make sounds to communicate, whether to find a potential mate, ward off predators, or just sing for pleasure. But the ...

If you were old enough to buy CDs in the ’90s, you may remember listening stations at superstores that featured music by some of nature’s noisiest creatures: birds. These CDs blended classical music ...

Dan Stowell is a co-founder and shareholder of Warblr Ltd. He receives funding from the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council for his research on bird sounds. The sound of birds is ...

Oh, these beautiful fall days and nights are here again. The leaves are turning, the air is crisp, and the nights are cool. As always, the seasons are changing and the birds are changing with them.

A group in Western Washington state has developed a novel gauge for their forest conservation work — thousands of audio recordings of native birds.