a spectrogram.

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The spectrogram is the result of calculating the frequency spectrum of windowed frames of a compound signal. It is a three-dimensional plot of the energy of the frequency content of a signal as it changes over time.

Spectrograms are used to identify phonetic sounds, to analyse the cries of animals, and in the fields of music, sonar/radar, speech processing, etc. A spectrogram can also be called a spectral waterfall, sonogram, voiceprint, or voicegram. The instrument that generates a spectrogram is called a sonograph.

A spectrogram of violin playing with linear frequency on the vertical axis and time on the horizontal axis.  The bright lines show how the spectral components change over time.  The intensity coloring is logarithmic (black is -120 dBFS).

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