voice quality
How speech sounds
Voice quality is the distinctive character of a person's voice—its texture, tone, and overall sound apart from what's being said.
A singer might have a rich, warm voice quality, while a cold might give someone a nasal voice quality.
In linguistics and speech pathology, voice quality describes specific acoustic properties: breathiness, roughness, resonance.
The term also applies to audio transmission: The voice quality on this call is terrible.
- modulationVarying signals to transmit
- timbreSound's distinctive character
- resonanceAmplified oscillation at natural frequency
- prosodyStudy of verse rhythm
- accentRegional speech pattern
phonation · intonation · pitch · vocal cords · stress · vocal range · stridence · clarity · clear as a bell · sonority · color · intensity · tone · hoarse · gravelly · texture · nuance · muffled
- Conference Callsconference call, dial-in, mute, unmute, passcode
- vocal cuesintonation, pitch, tone, inflection, prosody
- vocal techniquebreath control, diaphragm, falsetto, vocal registers, vocal range
- voice qualitiespitch, tone, timbre, resonance, inflection
- Sampling Rates
- voice analysisvoiceprint, vocal range, frequency range, spectrogram, spectral analysis
voice qualityaphonia
Inability to vocalize
hoarseness · raspiness · roughness · harshness · dysphonia
voice qualityvoicelessness
Lack of spoken sound
aphonia · silence · muteness · whisper · inaudibility
voice qualitysynthetic voice
Electronically produced human-like sound
robotic voice · artificial voice · text-to-speech · digital voice
voice, quality, voices, voiced, voiceless, voicing, unvoiced