diphoneina
Diphoneina is a hypothetical unit used in discussions of diphone-based speech synthesis. It refers to a standardized diphone, the transition segment between two adjacent phonemes, treated as a discrete, reusable module in a concatenative synthesis framework.
Origins and concept: The term emerges from diphone theory, where speech is modeled as a sequence of
Composition and metadata: In this thought experiment, a diphoneina item would include labels for the left and
Applications and significance: The concept is used in theoretical comparisons of library design, memory requirements, and
See also: Diphone, concatenative speech synthesis, text-to-speech, prosody.