Chapter 2: Voice Organs

The science of human voice production involves both physics and physiology. Human voice is produced by a group of human organs. There is a vast amount of literature about the anatomy and physiology of those organs. For a brief overview, see Sataloff’s Scientific American article The Human Voice [74]. More detail can be found in chapter 2 of Sundberg’s Science of the Singing Voice [92], and first four chapters of Titze’s Principles of Voice Production [95]. Even more detail can be found in Clinical Anatomy and Physiology of the Voice [75], a part of Sataloff’s Professional Voice [78]. In this chapter, we make a brief review of the anatomy and physiology of the voice organs as a background for the discussion of human voice production mechanism in the following two chapters.