Diphone



         


In phonetics, a diphone is an adjacent pair of Spanish has about 800 diphones and German has about 2,500.

Diphones are useful in speech synthesis because combining pre-recorded diphones to create synthesized speech sounds much more natural than combining just simple phones, because the pronunciations of each phones varies based on the surrounding phones.





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