EGAVE

formant

About 0.37 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A band of frequencies in a sound spectrum that have greater intensity and determine the quality of a sound, especially the resonant frequencies of the vocal tract that determine the quality of vowels and sonorant consonants.

Similar words

vocoder vocoders flexon audio frequency fricative freq flutter f-flat fortition fundamental frequency

Often followed by

frequencies frequency transitions structure is transition of values un

Word family

formants

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