What does a FFT plot show?

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JOJO
JOJO on 29 May 2014
Commented: dpb on 3 Jun 2014
I have plotted a FFT of a sound me saying Jump. Can Someone help me please. 1.What useful information I can find from this graph? 2.Does the point I put in the graph is the frequency at which I said the word jump?

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dpb
dpb on 29 May 2014
Not sure this one shows you much of anything...you've plotted the double-sided spectrum which isn't generally of much value; might as well just use the DC-based to Nyquist/2 positive frequency beginning at N/2+1 for the location.
But, the sharp peaks at harmonics looks to me like you most likely badly clipped the input and you've mostly got the spectrum of a square (or nearly square) wave...
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JOJO
JOJO on 3 Jun 2014
-Image Analyst when I put links Matlab delete them. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwzQnbeKnQg
-When I recorded the sound I talked loud?This caused the clip? -There is a way to make the data better use a filter or something?
dpb
dpb on 3 Jun 2014
...sound I talked loud?This caused the clip?
Maybe, maybe there's some other contamination source. How did you record the sound, how did you process it, did you plot it to see what the time record looks like, did you ensure you only analyzed a section that contains only the desired sound snippet, is there any antialiasing protection, what's the sampling rate, duration, etc., etc., etc., ...???
We have no way of knowing any of this and more...
The rolloff to DC is somewhat suspicious as well...

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