(1) For the study of vowels and consonants, the waveform is presented as a spectrogram , on which sounds appear as recognizable visual patterns.(2) The picture below shows six sound spectrograms , top to bottom.(3) As I was trained as a linguist, I of course studied spectrograms and sound analyses.(4) Nowadays, most spectrograms map frequency to a predefined color table to visually clarify the plot.(5) By listening to the booms and looking at their spectrograms , the scientists can distinguish between individual bitterns and count them more accurately.