formants definition
Praat for Beginners: Tutoral: What are formants? You should read LUnderstanding spectrogramsL first. A formant is a concentration of acoustic energy around a particular frequency in the speech wave. There are several formants, each at a different frequency, roughly one in each 1000Hz band for average men. The corresponding range for average women is one formant every 1100Hz. The true range depends on the actual length of the vocal tract. Each formant corresponds to a resonance mode of the vocal tract.