A wide-band spectrogram is a spectrogram with a smaller resolution in frequency due to the use of a short [[window function]]. However, this type of spectrogram has a greater resolution in time. It can show for example the silence in a [[stop consonant]]. In a wide-band spectrogram, the formant structure is more clearly represented than in a [[narrowband spectrogram]]. ![[A-wide-band-top-and-narrow-band-middle-spectrograms-are-shown-along-with-the-speech.png]] [Frederico Flego](https://www.researchgate.net/figure/A-wide-band-top-and-narrow-band-middle-spectrograms-are-shown-along-with-the-speech_fig22_242685014) formants are more visible in a wideband (top) while the harmonic structure is more visible in narrowband spectrogram (bottom)