The Syllable That Flips
→ the accompanying (human-written) blog post
The writing lives there. This page is the demo and the test.
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One knob: voice-onset time
Drag the slider, press ▶ play. ⟲ auto-sweep steps through the whole range for you.
0 ms — "ba"~25 ms — the boundary lives near here80 ms — "pa"
This browser can't render audio offline, so the waveform is unavailable — the sound itself still works.
release burst
the gap — aspiration
voicing
loudness (RMS)
↳ the measured version
Twenty-four syllables in random order — eight voice-onset times, three each. Say which one you heard. It takes about two minutes and needs sound.
trial 1 of 24
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