Audio Signal Processing Glossary

Jarno Seppänen
27.5.1999
Audio Research Group
Tampere University of Technology
Signal Processing Laboratory


For a more exhaustive list of English-Finnish translations, see the Audiosignaalinkäsittelyn sanasto by Vesa Välimäki.

Signal Processing in General

EnglishFinnishDescription
aliasing laskostuminen the phenomenon of frequencies above fs/2 reappearing below fs/2
amplitude envelope amplitudiverhokäyrä the silhouette of a waveform; a curve passing smoothly through all local maxima of the absolute value of a signal
comb filter kampasuodin a filter which has several stopbands and passbands by turns
frame kehys a short time-domain snippet of a signal
wavelet aalloke a
window ikkuna
transform muunnos
filter bank suodatinpankki
root-mean-square (RMS) tehollisarvo
phase vaihe
power teho

Audio Signal Processing

EnglishFinnishDescription
auditory scene analysis kuulema-analyysi
loudness voimakkuus
cochlea
pitch korkeus

Musical Signal Processing

EnglishFinnishDescription
beat isku
measure tahti
pulse pulssi
time signature tahtilaji
key signature sävellaji
fundamental frequency perustaajuus
harmonic harmoninen
inharmonic epäharmoninen
major duuri
meter metri
minor molli
overtone ylä-äänes

Speech Signal Processing

EnglishFinnishDescription
formant formantti
vowel vokaali



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