Formants

Another important class of spectra are those that contain formants (peaks in the spectral envelope).

**Figure 2:** Spectra of different voiced vowel sounds: bart, bat, food, beet.
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Notice 3 principal formants characteristic of a vowel.

Listen to aah.wav, ee.wav, eh.wav

``Music 175: Timbre'' by Tamara Smyth, Department of Music, University of California, San Diego (UCSD).

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