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If we consider computer graphics to be the art of image synthesis where the basic unit is a pixel.
What is the basic unit of sound synthesis?
[This relates to programming as I want to generate this via a computer program.]
Thanks!
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Phoneme – The smallest unit of sound. There are approximately 44 phonemes – e.g. 's', 'a', 'ch', 'igh in light'. Phonemes can be put together to make words e.g c-a—t.
A phoneme is a speech sound. It's the smallest unit of sound that distinguishes one word from another. Since sounds cannot be written, we use letters to represent or stand for the sounds. A grapheme is the written representation (a letter or cluster of letters) of one sound.
Basic unit of speech The simplest speech sound elements that are used to differentiate between one word and another are known as phonemes. A phoneme is considered to be the basic unit of speech in much the same way that a morpheme is considered to be the basic unit of language.
The basic structural unit of spoken language is suggested to be the 'utterance', which is defined operatively and theoretically: “The operative definition of the utterance is such that every expression marked by a prosodic terminal break is an utterance. ...
The basic unit is a sample
In a WAVE file, the sample is just an integer specifying where to move the speaker head to.
The sample rate determines how often a new sample is fed to the speakers (I'm not entirely sure how this part works, but it does get converted to an analog signal first). The samples are typically laid out in the file one right after another.
When you plot all the samples with x-axis being time and y-axis being sample_value, you can see the waveform.
In a wave file, samples can (theoretically) be any bit-size from 0-65535, which remains constant throughout the wave file. But typically 16 or 24 bits are used.
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