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Look, our voices sound different now, in case you weren't listening

  • Written by: The Conversation
imageThe consistent presence of sonic textures such as machine noise have significantly shaped the contexts of our hearing. MattysFlicks

Just listen: what is the sound that you can identify as being physically furthest away from where you are? Is it traffic, a jet engine, a computer fan, air conditioning, birds, animals, the weather, the TV?

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