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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, "A Linguist Explains Why 'Laurel' Sounds Like 'Yanny'," 15 May 2018 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, "A Linguist Explains Why 'Laurel' Sounds Like 'Yanny'," 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, "A Linguist Explains Why 'Laurel' Sounds Like 'Yanny'," 15 May 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, "You Tube Search-and-Delete Code Makes Money for Rights-Holders," 21 Aug. 2009 After collecting 131 recordings from 18 male cockatoos, the researchers used computer software to convert the recordings into spectrograms (visual displays of sound). — Laura Geggel Senior Writer, Fox News, "Cockatoos drop sick beats to charm mates," 5 July 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'spectrogram.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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