A male is a ‘mike’. We use letters selected from a standard phonetic, or spelling, alphabet so nobody fumbles for words. Spelling alphabets came about because early users of radios ...

The researchers dubbed their catalog of sound combinations a “phonetic alphabet” for sperm whales, comparing variations in the whales’ click sequences to the production of different phonetic ...

researchers have determined the building blocks of a "phonetic alphabet" that they believe sperm whales use to communicate. The researchers analyzed a set of data comprising 8,719 codas ...