Introduction My original intent was to insert an audio file into Matlab and have it print out what I was saying in plain text. This proved to be a challenge for several reasons which I will get to later. What I ended up doing instead was finding the 1st and 2nd formants in the famous sentence "Hello, world."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet http://phonemicchart.com/transcribe/1000_basic_words.html