Sound, with similar sounds in similar colors – central vowel in heavyweight sans font, color coded to the vowel – leading consonant in light italic serif font Here is a variation where the phoneme is split into three parts: Using a confusion matrix, colors can be chosen so that close-sounding sounds have similar colors (although vowel frontness and vowel origin matrix might be better). Color is a possibility color - particularly given that some phonemes are similar sounding. Encodings such as brightness, font-weight, etc., don’t scale well to 16-23 uniquely discernible categories. However, there are ~23 consonant phonemes and 16 vowel phonemes in English. How to make the sounds visually pop-out? Each syllable is a collection of phonemes for vowels and consonants, typically leading consonant(s), vowel(s), and trailing consonant(s). With phonetic symbols, sounds are comparable, but don’t visually pop-out. Furthermore, in the international alphabet, some vowel sounds are represented by a single symbol and some are represented by two symbol thus making it difficult to attend to the relevant symbols. You can visually scan the phonetic symbols, but you have to look closely at the letter shapes: Rhymes are driven by the vowel sound, which may or may not be at the end of the syllable. A simple approach is to convert English words to phonetic alphabet, so that the same sounds have the same phonetic symbol: Bad Guy as tiles, showing English and phonetic alphabet. Our goal is to encode those to make them visible.

rhyme) don’t visibly pop-out in English text.

To start, consider Billie Eilish’s Bad Guy. Simple tiles with English and phonetic syllables Then instead of whitespace, visualization is constrained to the tiles. Instead, if a lyric is considered like a stacatto sequence of syllables, the layout is more akin to a set of tiles locked together. Some poetry visualizations add white space between words and lines, which can then be filled with various visualization techniques, such as forming links between related words. Song lyrics depend heavily on rhythm, syllables and rhyme (in some songs such as pop songs).

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