Words and associated phonemes in the English language

This collection of phonemes in the English Language was collected using a Nady SMC 1000 Condenser microphone using a cardioid pick up pattern.  After being amplified it was sent to the computer for editing and analyzing.  The following are words that use the phonemes.  You can click on the word to view the waveform, narrow and wideband spectrum frequency analysis, waveform of the specific phoneme, and spectral magnitude of the phoneme with envelope.  Click on 'Play me!" to hear the word. 

Vowels
    
 

 Constants

Diphthongs

Analysis

Typically the vowels are tonal; they are periodic in the time domain.  When looking at the spectral graphs, one can see distinct tones with harmonics.  Similarly, the nasals exhibit this same property except with a dip in some midrange frequency components caused by resonance in the nasal cavity in addition to a low resonance.  The voiced and unvoiced fricatives look like noise bursts that are filtered in order to be distinguished from each other.  However, the voiced fricatives are somewhat periodic in the time domain.  The liquids are somewhat periodic with the /w/ having no resonance and /y/ having resonance.  They also seem to have a scooping effect; the high frequency components increase over time before blending with the next phoneme.  The unvoiced stops are like bursts of energy with a quick transient response.  Similarly, the voiced stops are like the unvoiced except with more low frequency content.  The diphthongs are very much like vowels that scoop into each other.  In the spectral plots, you can see the tones scooping from a lower to a higher frequency as the diphthong is pronounced.  Lastly, the affricatives are very noise-like, like a high passed version of white noise.