/w/ as in "went"

Classification: Bilabial voiced Approximant (glide)

Notes: The phoneme /w/ starts very low, only F1 being visible below 500 Hz. F2 and F3 show up weakly and belatedly; /w/ looks much like an /r/ except that F3 is usually above 2000 Hz (though weak.)

A typical /w/ may look like:


Speaker: Tim Carmell
Word: the /w/ section of the word "lowest"


Speaker: Tim Carmell
Word: the /w/ section of the word "went"

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