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Synonyms for former

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Synonyms for former

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Synonyms for former

the first of two or the first mentioned of two

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referring to the first of two things or persons mentioned (or the earlier one or ones of several)

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belonging to some prior time

(used especially of persons) of the immediate past

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belonging to the distant past

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There was no significant difference in any of the other formants of F1, F2, F3, and F4 for vowels /a/, /[epsilon]/, h/, /oe/, /u/, and /y/ (Table 2).
This decreased number of available harmonics, when coupled with fewer formants (due to the shorter vocal tract present in most treble singers), result in different acoustic situations.
The formants appear as horizontal frames; instead of that, amplitude values in function of frequency are represented in a gray-scale in vertical sense.
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The second variable is the formant centralization ratio (FCR), which is a coefficient that represents the magnitude of centralization of the formants F1 and F2 for vowels /i/, /u/, and /a/.
The mid cursor indicates the middle of the formants at which measurement of the formant frequencies are taken in Hertz (Hz) while the two extreme cursors measure the duration of the vowel from the beginning of the sound (left) to the end (right) in seconds.
Further to put formants in the KLAT synthesizer, we used WAVESURFER instead of PRAAT for formant estimation because formants estimation from WAVESURFER is easy to find than PRAAT, but we record my sound in the PRAAT.
where [y.sub.1,2] represent values of PSD in [dB] of determined formants, and [x.sub.1,2] are the positions of the formants on the frequency axis in [Hz].
In this regard, Weisman and Martin (1992) studied the trajectory of vowel formants and found that F2 is the formant that establishes the most direct relationship with the degree of speech intelligibility.
The calls were distinguished between one another by their "formants," a term that is usually applied to the vocal tract resonance that makes one human voice sound different from another.
Issues concerning vocal technique include coordinated onset and release of sound, breath management, vibrato, agility, resonance, laryngeal, formants and the singer's formant, articulation, vowel modification, sostenuto, dynamic control and messa di voce and hearing, feeling and seeing the voice, warming up and cooling down the voice, and the spoken voice.
The study found both mice and human mothers were sensitive to the same structural elements - or formants - within those sounds.
To make abstract technical decisions more concrete, science writers often examine the personal choices of their technical in formants ("Would you live at Love Canal?"), undermining the idea that technical decisions are based on depersonalized evidence.
Vocal tone is therefore a blend of the tone colors of the harmonics being featured by its resonances (formants).