How to Use spectrogram in a Sentence

spectrogram

noun
  • From there, the spectrogram is then turned into actual speech by a vocoder based on WaveNet.
    Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 8 Jan. 2018
  • The system focuses on the most-detailed parts of the file and analyzes the deltas, or changes, in key areas of the spectrogram over time (example to the right).
    Eliot Van Buskirk, WIRED, 21 Aug. 2009
  • To make this aural illusion, Bharucha first looked at a spectrogram of the spoken question.
    Joseph Calamia, Discover Magazine, 7 June 2010
  • Chelsea Sanker, a phonetician at Brown University, looked at the spectrogram above to help me figure out what was going on.
    Rachel Gutman, The Atlantic, 15 May 2018
  • But most importantly, visitors to the site can plug in their own text prompts, and Riffusion will produce a spectrogram of their request, which will play on the site as an audio clip.
    PCMAG, 15 Dec. 2022
  • From rainforests and deserts to Arctic tundra and coral reefs, hear the howls, croaks, hums, trills, clicks, growls, and cries of animals in the wild, and see this rich symphony of sound made visible through real-time streaming spectrograms.
    San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Here’s the spectrogram for the yanny/laurel recording: Higher frequencies (up to 5,000 hertz, or waves per second) appear toward the top, and lower ones (down to zero) toward the bottom.
    Rachel Gutman, The Atlantic, 15 May 2018
  • Linguists can study these sound waves and separate them out into their component frequencies, and display them in something called a spectrogram.
    Rachel Gutman, The Atlantic, 15 May 2018
  • On a frequency spectrogram, the researchers watched as the chomps, produced by the mouth, registered a high frequency, while the vocalized grumble produced by breath and vocal cords registered a low one.
    Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 29 June 2023
  • There are bright and distinct striations visible in the lower frequency portion (bottom) of the spectrogram.
    Jeff Kao and Jack Gillum, ProPublica, 25 June 2019
  • Input audio is split into 30-second chunks, converted into a log-Mel spectrogram, and then passed into an encoder.
    Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Two hundred million users, 30 million songs, spectrogram data of each song’s tempo key and loudness, activity logs and user playlists.
    IEEE Spectrum, 12 Oct. 2020
  • If the models are able to accurately reconstruct the spectrogram after regularized training, then the ECoG features must reflect some information about the music played to the patient.
    IEEE Spectrum, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Tacotron 2 uses a spectrogram that can handle 80 different speech dimensions, which Google says is enough to recreate not only the accurate pronunciation of words but natural rhythms of human speech as well.
    Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 8 Jan. 2018
  • One is a folder containing photographs and audio spectrograms.
    David Canfield, EW.com, 3 Oct. 2019
  • To compare brain activity, the scientists analyzed a spectrogram of all brain-wave activity.
    Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 13 June 2023
  • Kersta popularized the examinations of sound spectrograms, which are visual depictions of audio data.
    IEEE Spectrum, 15 Apr. 2023

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