English

Noun

sibilance ‎(plural sibilances)

1. The quality of being sibilant: a hissing quality.
   • 2000, Elaine A. Clark, There's Money Where Your Mouth Is: An Insider's Guide to a Career in Voice-Overs, Second Edition, Back Stage Books, ISBN 978-0-8230-7702-1, page 24:

     The following exercises help combat sibilance, plosives, lazy tongue, and mouth problems.

   • 2006, Barbara Alysen, Electronic Reporter: Broadcast Journalism in Australia, Second Edition, University of New south Wales Press, ISBN 978-0-86840-495-0, page 118:

     A string of words beginning with ‘s’ will cause sibilance.

   • 2009, Jean Ann Wright and M. J. Lallo, Voice-Over for Animation, Elsevier, ISBN 978-0-240-81015-7, page 28:

     Work to control the sibilance of your s sounds.

   • 2012, Michael Zager, Music Production: For Producers, Composers, Arrangers, and Students, Second Edition, Scarecrow Press, ISBN 978-0-8108-8202-7, page 277:

     Most often sending the vocal through a de-esser will either eliminate the sibilance or greatly reduce its sound.