Type IPA phonetic symbols - online keyboard. IPA Charts. Phonetics: The sounds of American English. Identifying sounds in spectrograms. Let's look at how various kinds of sounds appear on a spectrogram.
Vowels Vowels usually have very clearly defined formant bars, as in the following: In dipthongs, you can see the formants change frequency as the tongue body moves through the mouth: You can't always tell reliably which formant you're looking at -- F1, F2, F3, etc. -- unless you already have a good idea of where to expect them. How to read a spectrogram - Rob Hagiwara. Welcome to the Monthly Mystery Spectrogram webzone.
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