Electrolarynx voice box’s sound almost exactly the same as they did 30 years ago. Almost unintelligibly electronic and staticky. Why hasn’t the audio quality improved over time to sound more natural?
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The way it sounds is because of how the device works; it makes a buzz that replaces the vibrations that would normally be created by air passing through your larynx. But the buzz is at a fixed frequency while human voices vary in frequency – especially in certain languages.
An electrolarynx that sounds less monotone would need to have some way to change the frequency it produces to match the natural ups-and-downs of human speech. There are some devices on the market that claim to do this, like this one:
http://www.griffinlab.com/Products/TruTone-Electrolarynx.html
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