intonation

“Yo soy Emilia Pérez,” she says over and over again, modulating her intonation ever so slightly.

So every weekend we had a Zoom and taught her the rhythm, intonation, subtext.

“Our Peacock Product and Data Science teams further optimize how the voice sounds to make it as close as possible to Al Michaels’ by adjusting different variables: the breathing, the tone, speed and intonation,” said Jelley.

Melodic intonation therapy, for instance, is a promising approach to train people with aphasia to sing what they want to say, using their intact "musical mechanisms" to bypass damaged speech mechanisms.

But Palumbo, one of opera’s most mild-mannered yet most unrelenting perfectionists, was still making sure that the singers’ intonation was flawless, still fine-tuning the placement of the first note in a certain phrase.