Someone fell asleep on their keyboard while listing every #microphone model known to man—and rat. In the riveting saga of #Avisoft #Bioacoustics, we learn that #recording #mouse #squeaks with #audiophile levels of precision is apparently crucial, and that there's a "Knowles FG" in all of us.
https://avisoft.com/recorder-tests/ #models #sound #technology #HackerNews #ngated

#ScienceMagazine #InMice

‘Eloquent’ #mice point to protein that may have shaped human #speech

A few years ago, Yoko Tajima played matchmaker with a male and a female mouse, putting them together in a small dark cage. The male began to court the female with a series of #squeaks too high-pitched for humans to hear. But as Tajima and César Vargas watched the sound waves crest and fall on a spectrogram, they exchanged a surprised look.
https://www.science.org/content/article/eloquent-mice-point-protein-may-have-shaped-human-speech