How to Use spectrogram in a Sentence

spectrogram

noun
  • All the fancy spectrograms in the world won’t help me if my monitor crushes colors far more than my footage does.
    Eric Ravenscraft, WIRED, 25 Aug. 2024
  • From there, the spectrogram is then turned into actual speech by a vocoder based on WaveNet.
    Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 8 Jan. 2018
  • To make this aural illusion, Bharucha first looked at a spectrogram of the spoken question.
    Joseph Calamia, Discover Magazine, 7 June 2010
  • The spectrogram itself has also been posted and distributed across social media.
    ArsTechnica, 22 May 2026
  • 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, 15 May 2018
  • One is a folder containing photographs and audio spectrograms.
    David Canfield, EW.com, 3 Oct. 2019
  • There are bright and distinct striations visible in the lower frequency portion (bottom) of the spectrogram.
    Jeff Kao and Jack Gillum, ProPublica, 25 June 2019
  • Every few months, those cards are collected and the recordings are uploaded online and converted into spectrograms, which show sound data in visual form.
    Benji Jones, Vox, 25 June 2024
  • But most importantly, visitors to the site can plug in their own text prompts, and Riffusion will produce a spectrogram of their request, which will play on the site as an audio clip.
    PCMAG, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Two hundred million users, 30 million songs, spectrogram data of each song’s tempo key and loudness, activity logs and user playlists.
    IEEE Spectrum, 12 Oct. 2020
  • Input audio is split into 30-second chunks, converted into a log-Mel spectrogram, and then passed into an encoder.
    Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 22 Sep. 2022
  • To identify a bird by sound, Merlin takes a user's recording and converts it into a spectrogram—a visualization of the volume, pitch and length of the bird's call.
    Lois Parshley, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023
  • In an interview for this story, Manley said the NTSB should not have published those spectrogram images in the first place.
    Joel Rose, NPR, 30 May 2026
  • Then, the software essentially scans the spectrograms for matches within an existing library of animal noises.
    Benji Jones, Vox, 25 June 2024
  • To compare brain activity, the scientists analyzed a spectrogram of all brain-wave activity.
    Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 13 June 2023
  • On a frequency spectrogram, the researchers watched as the chomps, produced by the mouth, registered a high frequency, while the vocalized grumble produced by breath and vocal cords registered a low one.
    Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 29 June 2023
  • The software created spectrograms — visual representations of sound waves.
    Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 14 May 2024
  • From rainforests and deserts to Arctic tundra and coral reefs, hear the howls, croaks, hums, trills, clicks, growls, and cries of animals in the wild, and see this rich symphony of sound made visible through real-time streaming spectrograms.
    San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Kersta popularized the examinations of sound spectrograms, which are visual depictions of audio data.
    IEEE Spectrum, 15 Apr. 2023
  • But the agency also publicly shared a PDF with a spectrogram—a visual representation of sound signals—showing the last 30 seconds of cockpit audio recording.
    ArsTechnica, 22 May 2026
  • Tacotron 2 uses a spectrogram that can handle 80 different speech dimensions, which Google says is enough to recreate not only the accurate pronunciation of words but natural rhythms of human speech as well.
    Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 8 Jan. 2018
  • The scientists partnered with Google to turn the recordings into visual representations called spectrograms, then trained a machine learning model to categorize the vocalizations based on their frequencies.
    Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
  • That spectrogram apparently enabled a number of individuals to reconstruct audio versions of the pilots’ voices and other sounds from the cockpit voice recording, with examples appearing on social media sites such as X and Reddit.
    ArsTechnica, 22 May 2026

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