formant
Speech frequency peak
A formant is a concentration of acoustic energy at a particular frequency in a spoken sound, especially a vowel.
These resonant frequencies are created by the shape of the vocal tract and determine the distinctive quality of different vowel sounds.
Linguists and speech scientists identify vowels by measuring their first two or three formants.
The term also applies in music synthesis and audio engineering, where formants help create realistic vocal sounds or shape the tonal character of instruments.
Unobstructed speech sound
- articulationClear vocal expression
- spectrogramFrequency-over-time display
- nasalityNose-resonant voice quality
- phonemeMinimal distinctive sound unit
F1 · F3 · diphthong · monophthong · allophone · schwa · pharyngeal · velar
Rate of recurrence
- spectrumContinuous range of values
- bandwidthData transmission capacity
- resonanceAmplified oscillation at natural frequency
- filterPorous separation device
timbre · spectrogram · amplitude · waveform · oscillation · harmonics · overtones · partials
Vocal register transition zone
- resonanceAmplified oscillation at natural frequency
- projectionSomething that extends outward
- placementPutting somewhere specific
- registersRecords officially
belting · covering · brightness · ring · vibrato · tessitura · timbre
Combining parts into whole
- recognitionPerceiving something as known
- vocoderSpeech analysis synthesizer
- intelligibilityQuality of being understood
- parametricGoverned by set variables
vowel
Unobstructed speech sound
- articulationClear vocal expression
- spectrogramFrequency-over-time display
- nasalityNose-resonant voice quality
phoneme · F1 · F3 · diphthong · monophthong · allophone · schwa · pharyngeal · velar · palatal
frequency
Rate of recurrence
- spectrumContinuous range of values
- bandwidthData transmission capacity
- resonanceAmplified oscillation at natural frequency
filter · timbre · spectrogram · amplitude · waveform · oscillation · harmonics · overtones · partials · pitch
passaggio
Vocal register transition zone
- resonanceAmplified oscillation at natural frequency
- projectionSomething that extends outward
- placementPutting somewhere specific
registers · belting · covering · brightness · ring · vibrato · tessitura · timbre
synthesis
Combining parts into whole
- recognitionPerceiving something as known
- vocoderSpeech analysis synthesizer
- intelligibilityQuality of being understood
parametric · analysis · encoding · reconstruction · dysarthria
- phoneticsphonemes, phoneme, vocal folds, consonants, vowels
- voice synthesistext-to-speech, TTS, speech synthesis, voice synthesis, synthetic voice
- animal soundsbark, meow, woof, moo, roar
- acousticssound waves, sound wave, sound, soundwave, vibration
- granular synthesisgrains, window size, scatter, spray, spread
- resonanceresonance, harmonic, fundamental, natural frequency, node
formantfundamental
Forming the base
pitch · harmonic · zero · noise · excitation
- in formationOrganized spatial arrangement
- cloud formationIdentifiable sky pattern
- formative yearsChildhood and adolescence
- rock formationNatural stone arrangement
- MLA formatHumanities citation style guide
- date formatHow calendar entries are written