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
 * 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

 * 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