Vocalization
# Vocalization

Vocalization or vocalisation may refer to:

* Speech, communication using the human voice
   * Vocable, an utterance that is not considered a word
   * Speech production, the processes by which spoken sounds are made
* Animal communication, the transfer of information from one or a group of animals to another
   * Amphibian vocalization
   * Bird vocalization, bird calls and bird songs
   * Dolphin vocalizations
   * Female copulatory vocalizations, produced by females while mating
* Voice (phonetics), the vibration of the vocal cords that accompanies some speech sounds
   * Consonant voicing and devoicing, the addition or removal of this vibration from consonant sounds
* Vocalization, the change of a sound into a vowel
   * L-vocalization, the change of the consonant [l] into a vowel or semivowel
* Vocal music, music performed by singers with or without instrumental accompaniment
* Speech disfluency, an utterance that interrupts the normal flow of speech

## Writing

* Vocalization of consonantal text, the adding of vowels to a text written in consonants only
   * Arabic diacritics, symbols added to Arabic letters to represent vowels and consonant length
   * Niqqud, a system of diacritics to indicate vowel quality in Hebrew
      * Babylonian vocalization, a system of niqqud devised by the Masoretes of Babylon; defunct
      * Palestinian vocalization, a system of niqqud devised by the Masoretes of Jerusalem; defunct
      * Tiberian vocalization, a system of niqqud devised by the Masoretes of Tiberias; still in use
