"timbre" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to generally refer to the quality of a sound or voice. Example sentence: The timbre of the classical music was soothing to my ears.
But, for me, it's changed the timbre of my online interactions – with, for instance, the guy who responded to my radio story by calling my dad a "faggot".
The girlish timbre that eases listeners into some songs, such as "Saving All My Love For You", swiftly gives way to an altogether muscular, ballad-ready soar.
Its new system can encode the distinctive timbre of this by analysing about an hour's worth of recordings.
Instead, he gave the demon, his "child of hate", the grave and more menacing timbre of the baritone.
As far back as 1953 Hugh Le Caine, a Canadian pioneer of electronic music, was developing capacitive sensors for an early synthesiser, called the Sackbut, in which the position of his fingers controlled the timbre of the sound.A capacitive touch screen is covered with a transparent conductive coating, to which a voltage is applied, establishing an electric field across the screen.
The waiting room of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services USCISS) is large, new and well-lit; big flat screens everywhere display the state of the queue, and as tickets come up, automated voices announce them over good loudspeakers in a pleasing timbre.
Then, in her 20s, she set about acquiring the tragic worldliness that the timbre of her voice conveyed.Compared with the anodyne, identikit bands churned out by talent shows, Ms Winehouse was an unusual pop idol.
Hanna reflects: "This is how they knew each other, the Madigans, they knew the timbre of a voice, the rhythm of fingers tapping on a tabletop, and they didn't know each other at all".
He made a formula out of the individuality of notes their particular pitch, timbre and duration, and whether they were soft as a leaf or knocked your hat off and revelled in it in the most alarming way".Mikrophonie I" (1964), for example, was inspired by hitting the tam-tam that hung in his garden with spoons, tumblers and an egg-timer.
T3, a timbre topic described as "energetic, speech, bright" is found especially in hip-hop.As might also be expected, the rise and fall in frequency of these topics tracked the rise and fall of genres.
His voice was described as bass and stately, though it was often light and fast, gaining authority from the clipped fall of the sentences rather than the timbre.
