speech analysis
Studying spoken language
Speech analysis is the systematic examination of spoken language.
It may focus on acoustic properties—pitch, rhythm, tone—for applications like voice recognition or medical diagnosis.
It may also examine content, rhetoric, or delivery: Her speech analysis revealed patterns of evasion in the testimony.
The term spans fields from linguistics to political science to artificial intelligence.
- vocal cordsSound-producing throat membranes
- frequencyRate of recurrence
- sound wavesPressure disturbances carrying noise
- phonemeMinimal distinctive sound unit
- natural language processingComputational analysis of speech
voice print · morpheme · spectrogram · vocal fry · pitch · tone · prosody · disfluency · turn-taking · pauses · syntax · amplitude · stress patterns · timbre · intonation · voice synthesis · articulation · resonance
speech analysisspeech synthesis
Artificially producing vocal audio
text-to-speech · speechwriting · oration · public speaking · verbal expression
speech analysispassive listening
Hearing without deliberate focus
speech, speak, speaks, speaking, spoke, spoken, speaker, speakers, speakable