Diphones

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A diphone refers to two phones adjacent in the thing to pronounced.

Usually refers to the transition between the two phones in pronunication, especially when this is distict from their isolated pronunciations.


Diphones are common in vocal modelling for speech recongition and speech synthesis.


Not to be confused with dipthong, which one vowel sliding into another (a dipthong can be considered a diphone of two vowels(verify))