One integral aspect of language is the phoneme.

语言的一个不可或缺的方面是音素。

In the past, speech-recognition software has parsed what is being said into its constituent sounds, known as phonemes.

过去，语音识别软件语音分解为组成语言的最小单元，称为音素。

Multiple studies suggest that infants under six months can perceive the whole spectrum of phonemes.

多项表明，六个月以下的婴儿可以感知整个音素谱。

Okay, different nationalities will find pronouncing different phonemes harder than others.

好的，不同国家的人会发现发出不同的音素比其它的要难。

I think it's a phoneme problem, I think it is something to change, not " then" because " then" is a different word, the " en" end.

我为这是一个音素问题，我为这是要改变的东西，不是“then”，因为它是一个不同的单词，“en”结尾。

You can click on words containing those phonemes, and hear me say them too.

你可以点击包含那些音素的单词，然后听我读。

What factors determine whether a phoneme enters common use, or is relegated to silence?

是什么因素决定一个音位是常用还是降至不发音呢？

A 2015 study from Japan looking at two groups of English learners found that indeed, Shadowing made a statistically significant improvement in phoneme perception for both groups.

2015年来自日本的一项两组英语学习者进行了观察，发现确实如此，在统计上，Shadowing 两组人的音素感知都有显著提高。

According to Nina, single sounds such as a " b, " " p" or " o" — called phonemes — happen 25 to 30 times a second in running speech.

根据妮娜的说法，在连续说话时，“b”、“p”或“o”等单个声音（音素）每秒会出现 25 到 30 次。

But once you get the symbols, you build again the phonemes and the words and the sentences of the meeting.

但是一旦你得到了这些符号，你就可以重新构建话的音素、单词和句子。

This is where two phonemes comes togeth and change into a new phoneme which is easier to say.

两个音素合二为一，变成一个新的音素，以方便发音。

But “la” and “ra” are phonemes that do not exist in the Japanese language.

但是“la”和“ra”是日语中不存在的音素。

And once you are getting back to using this symbol to phonemes.

一旦你回到使用这个符号的音素。

But, even from Day 1, it can be a super efficient way for improving your pronunciation and at the same time your ability to recognize phonemes in natural language.

但是，即使从第一天开始，它就能非常有效地改善你的发音以及你识别自然语言中的音素的能力。

Tongue twisters are an effective and fun way to practise pronunciation by focusing on specific phonemes.

绕口令是一种通过专注于特定音素的有效且有趣的练习发音的方式。

If they can be recognised, though, working out which words they are part of is far easier than would be the case starting with phonemes alone.

如果能够一一识别出来，判断出它属于哪个单词要远比单纯由音素判断容易。

One phoneme that occurs in only about 20 percent of the world's languages is the ejective consonant, such as p' or k'.

有一种音位仅出现在全世界 20% 的语言中——那就是“爆破辅音”，比如“p”或“k”。

Statistical speech models and a probabilistic technique called Gaussian mixture modelling are then used to identify each phoneme, before reconstructing the original word.

然后由语音统计模型和一种称为高斯混合模型的概率工具来识别每个语素，再其组合为原来的单词。

So many, in fact, that each individual language contains only a subset of potential sound units, or phonemes.

事实上，其种类之丰富以至于每种语言只含有一种潜在音位子集。

But if you're picturing all these phonemes sloshing around like a bowl of alphabet soup, it's actually a lot more organized than that.

但如果你为这些音素像一碗字母汤一样乱七八糟，其实比那更有组织性。