John Colapinto

You can actually tense it for growling sounds.

You can sort of make the vocal cords stiff.

So the action of affixing lips to a nipple and then coaxing milk from that nipple with very specific rhythmic lip movements, but then also coordinating the tongue to sort of get out of the way to let the milk come in, but then rippling the tongue in complex ways in order to make the milk pass down into our stomach.

Hi, my name is Darius, and I'm the first male African-American English speech synthesis voice from an acapella.

Pooped.

Yes.

Yeah.

So he could breathe.

Good, how are you?

Out of pure frustration.

I had a respiratory arrest.

And it just evolved from there.

And they could hear their baby cry for the first time.