phonemes

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Second, lip movement is closely tied to speech sounds, which change rapidly and depend on complex sequences of phonemes.

From Science Daily • Jan. 16, 2026

"We can capture the tone, the character, the style, the phonemes, and even if you have an accent, we can capture that as well," he told the Future Visionaries podcast in 2021.

From BBC • Aug. 31, 2024

According to Rendell, the evidence shows whales are mainly repeating the same phoneme over and over again instead of actually combining varieties of phonemes into complex words.

From Salon • Aug. 23, 2024

The AI decodes words from phonemes — the subunits of speech that form spoken words.

From Scientific American • Aug. 24, 2023

It makes pellets out of phonemes, implies that the deep structures of grammar are made of something like cement.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas