sound spectrograph

American

noun

an electronic device for recording a sound spectogram.

sound spectrograph British

noun

an electronic instrument that produces a record ( sound spectrogram ) of the way in which the frequencies and intensities of the components of a sound, such as a spoken word, vary with time

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By means of a sound spectrograph, Kersta converts spoken words into picture patterns that he says identify the speaker as reliably as his fingerprints.

From Time Magazine Archive

The most striking evidence came from a sound spectrograph, a machine that reduces speech to electronic "pictures" called spectrograms or voiceprints.

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