What does formant mean?
A formant is a spectral peak or a resonant frequency in a sound, typically produced by the shape of the vocal tract. In phonetics, formants are used to describe the acoustic properties of speech sounds.
Example
"The singer's voice had a distinctive formant that gave her tone a warm, rich quality."
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