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the air goes through a series of changes when it's exhaled yo become voice.

At inhalation the lungs expand to take in air, and at exhalation the lungs
contract to let it out. This movement happens because of the diaphragm.
When the air exhaled pass across the larynx, wich is situated at the top of the
trachea and below the pharinx.
The larynx contains the first valve that can interfer with the passage of the air-
stream; the vocal folds. These are two bands of muscle lying across the center of
the larynx. At the back they are conected to the two arytenoid cartilage which can
goes tense or lax.
When vocal folds came into light contact the air passing trought them causes them
to vibrate. The sound produced by this vibration and only after passing by to the
cavities or resonators it becomes at voice as we know it.
All sound produced without vibration of the vocal folds are called voice less
sound. Those produced with vibration are called voiced sounds.
The human speech mechanism has three resonators; the pharynx, which can change its
shape slightly; the nasal cavity, which constant in shape and size and the oral
cavity, which is extremely variable.
The pharynx is the passage situated at the top of the larynx, comunicating with the
oral and nasal cavities.
The articulators are situated in or sorrounding the oral cavity they are the
tongue, palate teeth and lips.
If articulators at capable of movement we call them actives, and passive if they're
not.
The tongue is the most agile speech organ, as it's principally made of muscle. The
whole tongue moves backwards and forwards, and up and down.
The upper teeth are used in speech to interfere with or stop the air-flow with the
help of the tongue or the lower lip. The lips constitute the very mobile outer
adges of the mouth, and can adopt different shapes.

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