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Friday, May 15, 2009

Music to my ears

Do the notes of english vowels match any scale? Yes, but apparently all latin languages use the same Formants, so the hunt continues. I believed the main cause of accents is the inability to play the "vowel scale" of a language. For example there is no "eu" sound in English hence the missing note when French is spoken by anglophones. So keep looking.
Scale_of_vowels Formant Pitch_accent
Piano_key_frequencies
pianopitch calculates frequencies for non-standard starting frequencies

This table lists vowels and approximate matches on a piano, I want to compare them sometime:
Vowel IPA Formant f1 Formant f2 Piano key Note Note Hertz
u u 320 Hz 800 Hz 59 g′′ G5 783.991
o o 500 Hz 1000 Hz 63 b′′ B5 987.767
ɑ ɑ 700 Hz 1150 Hz 66 d′′′ D6 1174.66
a a 1000 Hz 1400 Hz 69 f′′′ F6 1396.91
ø ø 500 Hz 1500 Hz 70 f′′′/g′′′ F6/G6 1479.98
y y 320 Hz 1650 Hz 72 g′′′/a′′′ G6/A6 1661.22
æ ɛ 700 Hz 1800 Hz 73 a′′′ A6 1760
e e 500 Hz 2300 Hz 78 d′′′′ D7 2349.32
i i 320 Hz 2500 Hz 79 d′′′′/e′′′′ D7/E7 2489.02