Vocalization

Vocalization or vocalisation may refer to:

• Speech, communication using the human voice
• Vocable, an utterance that is not considered a word
• Speech production, the processes by which spoken sounds are made
• Animal communication, the transfer of information from one or a group of animals to another
• Amphibian vocalization
• Bird vocalization, bird calls and bird songs
• Dolphin vocalizations
• Female copulatory vocalizations, produced by females while mating
• Voice (phonetics), the vibration of the vocal cords that accompanies some speech sounds
• Consonant voicing and devoicing, the addition or removal of this vibration from consonant sounds
• Vocalization, the change of a sound into a vowel
• L-vocalization, the change of the consonant l into a vowel or semivowel
• Vocal music, music performed by singers with or without instrumental accompaniment
• Non-lexical vocalization in music
• Speech disfluency, an utterance that interrupts the normal flow of speech

• Vocalization of consonantal text, the adding of vowels to a text written in consonants only
• Arabic diacritics, symbols added to Arabic letters to represent vowels and consonant length
• Niqqud, a system of diacritics to indicate vowel quality in Hebrew
• Babylonian vocalization, a system of niqqud devised by the Masoretes of Babylon; defunct
• Palestinian vocalization, a system of niqqud devised by the Masoretes of Jerusalem; defunct
• Tiberian vocalization, a system of niqqud devised by the Masoretes of Tiberias; still in use

• Vocalise (disambiguation)