Make your own vowel resonators!

A guide to making tubes from simple household materials that can produce vowel-like sounds.

Mark Huckvale
Speech, Hearing & Phonetic Sciences
University College London

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Acoustics of AH Vowel Resonator

AH vowel

Vocal tract frequency responseResonator response
Vocal tract spectral analysisResonator spectral analysis

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Acoustics of IH Vowel Resonator

IH vowel

Vocal tract frequency responseResonator frequency response
Vocal tract spectral analysisResonator spectral analysis

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Acoustics of OO Vowel Resonator

OO vowel

Vocal tract frequency responseResonator frequency response
Vocal tract spectral analysisResonator spectral analysis

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© 2008 Mark Huckvale University College London