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Vocal Resonance Analyzer

Sing a sustained vowel and see your voice’s spectral balance — how energy spreads from warmth to air — its brightness (spectral centroid), and the strength of the “ring” (singer’s formant, ~2.5–3.4 kHz) that helps a voice carry.

ℹ Resonance “placement” (chest, head, nasal) describes sensations, not measurable locations. This tool reports your spectral balance, centroid, and ring — acoustic facts that correlate with perceived brightness and projection. True nasality needs a nasometer (separate oral and nasal mics) and can’t be measured from one microphone. The picture also depends on your mic and room. Use it as a brightness/ring guide, not a clinical or anatomical readout. Your mic is analyzed live and never recorded or uploaded.

Microphone is off. Click “Start microphone”, then hold a steady vowel for a few seconds.

How It Works

While you hold a vowel, the tool builds a rolling average spectrum of your voice (a smoothed picture of roughly the last second) and measures where the energy sits. It splits that spectrum into five bands — Warmth, Body, Mid, Ring and Air — and shows each band’s share. It also computes the spectral centroid (the “centre of mass” of the spectrum, a good proxy for perceived brightness) and the strength of the ring: energy in the singer’s-formant region around 2.4–3.4 kHz, where trained voices concentrate energy to cut through an ensemble. A dark, warm voice puts most energy low; a bright, projecting voice shows a clear ring bump.

Why not “chest vs head” directly? Because those are felt sensations of vibration, not quantities a microphone can locate. What a mic can measure is the resulting spectral balance, and that’s what you see here. Likewise, genuine nasality requires comparing sound from separate oral and nasal microphones (a nasometer); a single mic can’t isolate it. Treat the numbers as an honest acoustic mirror you can A/B against yourself — sing the same note “darker” then “brighter” and watch the bands shift.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does this tell me if I'm using chest or head voice?
Not directly — those are sensations, not measurable locations. It shows the acoustic result: your spectral balance, brightness, and ring. Brighter, ring-heavy balances often accompany a more “forward/heady” feel, but that’s a correlation, not a measurement.
What is the "ring"?
A cluster of energy around 2.5–3.4 kHz — the singer’s formant — that lets a voice project over instruments without extra loudness. A higher ring percentage means more of that carrying power.
Can it measure nasality?
No. Measuring nasality properly needs separate oral and nasal microphones (a nasometer). One microphone can’t separate nasal from oral output, so this tool doesn’t claim to.
Is my microphone recorded or uploaded?
No. Audio is analyzed live in your browser and never leaves your device. Stopping the mic releases it immediately.
Why do my numbers change on a different mic?
Every microphone has its own frequency response and rooms add reflections. Compare results on the same setup for consistency.