phoneme
| Elementary sound of a language defined by the properties which differentiate it from the other sounds in the language. The word "father" is made up of 4 phonemes "f", "a" "th" and "er". An elementary unit of sound in a language, used to distinguish meaning in words. For example, the word “kite” is made up of 3 phonemes: “k”, “ai”, “t”. The word “right” is also made up of three phonemes: “r”, “ai”, “t”. The difference in meaning between “kite” and “right” (or “sight”, “might”, “night”, “white” etc.) is conveyed by the identity of the first phoneme.
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| phoneme-based recognition
| A recognition technique in which the models of words (or expressions) to be recognized are made up by concatenating the models of the language's phonemes. The words may be transcribed into phonemes from a glossary or generated from an automatic text-based phonetization module. An alternative to this type of modeling is whole-word based modeling.
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