… Formant frequencies are the positions of the local maxima of the power spectral envelope …
formants are crucial in signaling the movements with respect to place of articulation. Formants …

… Formant estimation can be a process in which knowledge about likely formant locations leads
… on automatic analyses that may generate spurious formants or miss a formant altogether. …

The current study concerns speaking voice quality in two groups of professional voice users,
teachers (n = 35) and actors (n = 36), representing trained and untrained voices. The voice …

… of formant frequencies on formants levels (henceforth denoted as Ln, where n = formant …
the fact that a formant level increases if its distance to another formant is decreased, other things …

… for formant estimation presented in this paper is that an explicit smoothing of the formant
frequencies along the time axis does not seem to be necessary, since the formant contours as …

… The basic approach of the analysis scheme is to estimate the formant frequencies from …
formant frequencies, constraints on formant frequency ranges and relative levels of the formant …

… had identical formant … formant frequency transitions. This result would indicate that sampling
occurs at zero rate of change of formants, and that the measurement of the midpoint formant …

… formant" in terms of formants only we have to assume an extraordinary density of the higher
formants. … on various vowels in four professional bass singers yielded the average formant …

… called the singer's formant. It has been claimed that there is an actor's formant but the distinctive
… Analogous to the singer's formant, a speaker's formant is expected to be a local energy …

We decided to test the 1975 formula for calculating F; against a full set of 18 IPA-cardinal
vowels. These were spoken by one of the authors and analyzed spectrographically. A set'of …