NATO Phonetic Alphabet One motivation for changing the ... It is more difficult to understand some words when two hams with different US regional accents are communicating. Accents helped drive ...

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 ...

Now that they have the sperm whale phonetic alphabet, researchers can proceed with figuring out how its different components fit together—and, possibly, what it all means. For example ...