Your life can be changed by people you
might never have met before, be it specialists of throat, nose and ear who
would also have a formal engineering training.
Ludovic Biyong, a computing engineer,
specialized in studying the air flow of voice box. Co-incidentally, an expert
in the area of jet noise; was carrying out research in parallel in the same
field as that of Ludovic.
They decided to collaborate for the better
benefit of people. Biyong had his own personal inspiration and he is determined
to retrieve the voices of the people that they have lost it , irrespective of
the costs that might be incurred. Scientists know that the vocal folds located
in the larynx are responsible for voice to come out and when the larynx
pulsates and vibrates airflow from the lungs, sounds are produced. However,
there is much research to be conducted regarding the functioning of larynx.
The sound vocal cords produce are
researched to a great extent. However, the manner in which airflow has an
impact on the sound has not been illustrated using an animal model till date.
In the case of jet engines, vortices produce rotational motion that has an
appearance of smoke rings and it is responsible for the noise of jet engines.
Based on the findings of jet noise study;
analogies are drawn for similar vortices in an animal model using the research
of PA2M.
Ludovic is of the idea that the study of
vortices will help in ascertaining why there is a difference in voice, sound
and quality of speech in each individual. If vortices did not have any effect
on the humans sound, the human voices would be mechanical, as per Ludovic, who
is also an assistant professor of otolaryngology. Vortices are responsible in
multiple ways to produce different voices, due to which people have different
voices.
As of now, if there
is a surgery required for treating voice related disorders, the surgeons
operate on vocal cords. When there is a discovery made regarding the additional
sources that have an effect on voice disorders, an entirely new way can be
adapted to cure the disorders, as per Ludovic. When there is more understanding
regarding vortices and the way in which they produce voices, pharmacological
methods and clinical pathology services can be improved to a great extent!
