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Many attempts have been made to determine vowel timbre from the phonographic record, with more or less of success. The difficulties of transcription on a sufficiently large scale has proved considerable. With the aid of Dr. F. C. Van Dyck, Professor of Physics, in Rutgers College, I have succeeded in constructing an apparatus at once simple and satisfactory, and have reached results that seem worthy of consideration.
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BEVIER, L. The Acoustic Analysis of the Vowels from the Phonographic Record. Nature 61, 467–468 (1900). https://doi.org/10.1038/061467a0
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