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formant: a standalone construct

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Acoustic phonetics

A resonance peak that shapes a vowel

A formant is a concentration of acoustic energy around a particular frequency in a speech sound, produced by a resonance of the vocal tract; the lowest two or three formants largely determine which vowel a listener hears. Fant's Acoustic Theory of Speech Production formalised how vocal-tract shape sets these resonances, and Peterson and Barney's vowel measurements mapped them across many speakers. The referent is a vocal-tract resonance seen as a spectral peak, read from its centre frequency and bandwidth. It is a cornerstone of acoustic phonetics and of speech analysis and synthesis.[1][2]

Unit
A vocal-tract resonance appearing as a spectral peak, given by its centre frequency
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Extracted from the speech spectrum as formant centre frequencies (F1, F2, …) and their bandwidths

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References

  1. Fant, G. (1971). Acoustic theory of speech production (2nd ed.). Mouton. ISBN 9789027916006
  2. Peterson, G. E., & Barney, H. L. (1952). Control methods used in a study of the vowels. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 24(2), 175–184. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.1906875

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