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These frequencies are the resonant frequencies of that particular vocal tract shape.

Characterizing the vocal tract shape, these formant frequencies specify vowels, nasals, laterals, and the transitional movements in voiced consonants.

In this way a vowel has its own characteristic auditory quality, which is the result of the specific variations in air pressure caused by the superimposing of the vocal tract shape on the fundamental frequency produced by the vocal cords.

Figure 2 Vocal tract shape.

Identification of the three-dimensional vocal tract shape from the formant frequency spectra or transmission characteristic is discussed.

In the case of the vowels, these differences can be attributed to variations of the vocal tract shape.

Voiced consonants such as nasals and laterals also have specific vocal tract shapes that are characterized by the frequencies of the formants.

The human vocal tract shapes the vibrations of the vocal cords into a set of harmonics that are more intense at some frequencies than others relative to the fundamental note.

Other voiced consonants such as stops and approximants (semivowels) are more like vowels in that they can be characterized in part by the resonant frequencies the formants—of their vocal tract shapes.

They differ from vowels in that during a voiced stop closure there is very little acoustic energy, and during the release phase of a stop and the entire articulation of a semivowel the vocal tract shapes are changing comparatively rapidly.

Using these vocal tract shapes, we can synthesize vowel sequences either in isolation or in context.