Speech Analysis Terms

adjective not able to be understood; incomprehensible

• The lecturer's accent was so strong that his speech became unintelligible to most of the audience.
• I couldn't make out a single word he said, it was completely unintelligible.
• The rapper's lyrics were so mumbled and slurred that they were practically unintelligible.
• The artist's abstract painting was so chaotic and confusing that it appeared unintelligible to most viewers.

noun a visual representation of the spectrum of frequencies of a signal as they vary with time

• The scientist analyzed the spectrogram to study the frequency components of the signal.
• I saw a cool spectrogram of the sound wave on my music app.
• Check out this sick spectrogram of the song - it looks so trippy!
• The spectrogram of her emotions revealed a complex mix of feelings.