These actions give personal meanings to words beyond their symbolic definitions. In kinetic typography, the content of the message plus its kinetic form work in unison to convey the intonation of a message. We found it difficult to represent paralinguistic features of tone of voice by kinetic typography alone. Visual texture is a way of representing timber, but we found it to be weak. On the other hand, linguistic features have a more direct relationship to kinetic forms.
Linguistic features work at the level of syllables, words, and sentences.
They are the metrical structure, rhythmic and intonational aspects of language. The most important linguistic features are pitch, loudness, and tempo or speed of delivery. Pitch is defined as different levels of tones in spoken communication. For instance, the difference between a falling and a rising pitch pattern might be the difference between a statement and a question. In our experiments, we have found that kinetic typography can convey pitch differences by using large upward or downward movements across the display area.