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Recreating the sound of silence

While most anechoic chambers are used for acoustic research, UCL’s is used in phonetics – the scientific study of the human voice. Researchers make precise recordings of voices, using both microphones and laryngographs.

This latter device, developed by one of the academics who used this chamber, measures the opening and closing of the voice box while the subject speaks. Linguists at UCL use the recordings to identify the root causes of speech abnormalities in children.