Legend: unrounded • rounded The open-mid front unrounded vowel, or low-mid front unrounded vowel,[1] is a type of vowel sound used in some spoken languages.The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is the Latin epsilon, a Latinized variant of the Greek lowercase epsilon, ⟨ɛ⟩.Symbols to the right in a cell are voiced, to the left are voiceless.Shaded areas denote articulations judged impossible.Legend: unrounded • rounded
Spectrogram of
[ɛ]
Sagittal section
of a vocal tract pronouncing the IPA sound ⟨
ɛ
⟩. Note that a wavy
glottis
in this diagram indicates a voiced sound.