Graphic illustrates the vowel space area from a single talker (IMAGE)

American Institute of Physics

Graphic illustrates the vowel space area from a single talker

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This graphic illustrates the vowel space area from a single talker. Each peak corresponds to different vowel nuclei, and as speech increases in clarity, on average, the total area enclosed by these peaks becomes larger.

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University of California, Irvine; University of Utah

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