Spectrogram review

spectrograms are basic tools for speech and audio analysis.

• formant: formant are the resonant frequencies created within speech.
• speech elements:
• vowels: voiced sounds, such as a, e, etc..
• fricatives: fricatives are the phonemes that are produced by a constriction in the vocal tract. They don't usually contain much resonant frequencies (formants), but have content across frequency spectrum.
• plosives: plosives are transient bursts created by closure of vocal tract followed by release, which can be voiced or unvoiced.
• diphthongs / glides: glides are characterised by spectral movement of formants over time.
• nasals: nasals are resonant sounds produced by vibration within the nasal cavity.
• defining these elements in a spectrogram:
• formant: horizontal bands
• fricatives: vertical bands of flat spectrum 'noise'
• vowels: several formant over long period
• glides / diphthongs: moving formant; gradual vertical movement of a formant horizontal band
• plosives: stop in spectrum before vowels etc.
• nasals: two or more formants usually with a fairly large gap in between where there is a missing formant; just as vowels but with 'hole in lower spectrum'
• signal processing stages to produce a spectrogram:
• signal segmentation and windowing
• transformation to frequency domain via DFT with zero padding
• Log magnitude spectrum and stacking vectors in a matrix
• magnitude to colour mapping and display
• four main parameters / choices in producing a spectrogram:
• sampling rate
• DFT length
• segmentation window length / zero padding length
• overlap
• spectral resolution
• narrowband (long window) spectrogram makes harmonic structure clear
• bandwidth of 45~50Hz, e.g. Fs=44.1KHz, FFT size should be ~1024
• associated with glottal source
• wideband (short window) spectrogram makes formant structure clear
• bandwidth of 300~500Hz, e.g. Fs=44.1KHz, FFT size should be ~128
• dark formant bands that change with vowels not pitch
• formants associated 'filter properties' of vocal tract above larynx

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