Your voice is you and you want it to be heard. Our voices have to survive as a communication channel with significant competing sounds and can even re-emerge after death via Mummification. The human voice has to be resilient.
David Howard worked on Synthesis of a Vocal Sound from the 3,000 year old Mummy, Nesyamun ‘True of Voice’ with fellow co-authors J. Schofield, J. Fletcher, K. Baxter, G. R. Iball and S. A. Buckley.