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Who Controls Your Breathing · Lungs

Do singers have bigger lungs?

Speech is exhalation, precisely rationed.

The simple answer

Every word you say rides out on a breath. Speech is really a controlled leak — air released past your vocal folds slowly enough to be shaped into sound.

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There's more: speech is exhalation, precisely rationed. The full explanation — and the interactive version you can tap and quiz yourself on — lives in the app.

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