Speech generation / Speech sounds
Speech sounds
- fundamental speech sounds are called phones and their percepts are called phonemes
- different phones are produced by changing the tension in the muscles of the vocal tract
- there are more than 200 different phones that make up the ~6000 languages in the world
- phones make up syllables, which make up words, which make up sentences...
- the average educated speaker of English has a working vocabulary of about 10,000 words, and may "know" as many as 100,000