formant
- noun
- /ˈfɔːrmənt/
- Specialized
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formante
- So a formant is just the power peaks in the voice and the first first four formants are, are extremely important for language.
- formant frequencies
- vowel formants
- formant transitions
Examples
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In both cases, a constriction is created that leads to a low third formant (F3), a very salient acoustic characteristic of this sound.
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Analogously, acoustic contrast distance was calculated as the Euclidean distance between centroids of distributions in first formant (F1) x second formant (F2) space.
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Under conditions involving telephone transmission, the performance of systems based on formant measurements has been found to be poor.
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OK, so what's shown here is not a whole spectrogram, but just the intensity of the first formant and the second formant.
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Third, we synthesized stimuli using the identified formant values.
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The fundamental frequency, the first five formants, and the bandwidths of the vowels were measured.
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Masking one of the formants with noise leads to perceptual confusions.
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Vowel perception relies on spectral resolution to resolve the formant pattern that distinguishes between vowels.
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Vowel perception relies on spectral resolution to resolve the formant pattern that distinguishes between vowels, which seems to imply that all vowel features are mainly defined by TFS cues.
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The speaker's clarity improved as he emphasized the formant frequencies of the vowels.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Formant comes from form, a word meaning 'to shape', plus -ant, meaning 'that which'. In speech, a formant is a strong 'shape' of sound, a band of energy, and that's why each formant helps us tell one vowel or sound from another.
