Lulu Miller

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3,713 appearances 28 recordings 5 series first heard Mar 2025 last heard 5d ago

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Radiolab · Voice · 26 Sep 2025 podcast

Out of college, I was what's called an acoustical engineer.

One of those people that like when you build a building.

Sit around and stare at drawings of buildings and, you know, the HVAC components of buildings.

You basically do some math to make sure that the air conditioning is not like just too loud in parts of the building.

Yeah.

And that wasn't enough for you?

No, it sounds super sexy work.

Something about it didn't click for him.

I realized I wasn't cut out to be an engineer.

But he did like spend a lot of time thinking about sound.

And not just kind of any old sound, but the sounds that are really important to us as human beings.

And in particular, how does the brain make sense of the sounds that our ears detect?

Sounds such as?

A voice.

And in particular?

A very special voice.

Mom's voice.

Okay, that sounds icky.

Well, it's certainly a loaded term, right?

But Daniel's basically like, a mother's voice is one of the first voices that you hear in your life.

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