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，语音识别软件将语音分解为组成语言的最小元，称为音素。

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

多项研究表明，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.

我认为这是一个音素题，我认为这是要改变的东西，不是“then”，因为它是一个不同的词，“en”结尾。

Honestly, the day that I auditioned for " X Factor" because before that, that was the first time I ever really performed in front of a large group of people.

老实说，是我参加《X音素》试镜的那天，因为在那之前，那是我第一次真正在一大群人面前表演。

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词，后听我读。

That's easy for our...auditory system, if you think of speech sounds.

对听觉系统来说这很容易——如果你想到的是语音音素。

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年来自日本的一项研究对两组英语学习者进行了观察，确实如此，在统计上，Shadowing 对两组人的音素感知都有显著提高。

In this current research, after studying 20 of these babbling babies in Costa Rica and Panama, the researchers identified eight speech precursors, or protophones, in the pups' babbling.

在这份最近的研究中，研究人员调查了哥斯达黎加和巴拿马的20只咿呀学语的小蝙蝠，在其儿语中分辨8个语言前身或称祖音素。

TV talent shows also ruled the airwaves with 8 million people voting for Alexandra Burke to win the X Factor, Britain’s most famous talent contest.

电视达人秀依稳坐收视冠军。英国最受欢迎选秀节目《X音素》收到800万观众投票亚历山大·波尔克为冠军。

Thanks to that support, Lovato made her way back, appearing on The X Factor while in her sober-living house and releasing three chart-topping albums.

在这样的支持下，洛瓦托又回来了，她参加了《X音素》，当时她还住在自己安静的房子里，行了三张排行榜冠军专辑。

And after a certain age what happens is we only focus, like our brain only starts focusing on certain sounds in our target languages.

而在一定年龄之后，我们的注意力便仅限于此，大脑开始专注于目标语言中的特定音素。

So you know, think of the Geordie Shore or Cheryl Cole, remember she got fired from the X- Factor.

比如真人秀《乔弟海岸》，还有被《X音素》炒鱿鱼的评委谢丽尔·科尔。

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，你就可以重新构建对话的音素、词和句子。

Ok guys, I hope this lesson helped you Please make a conscious effort to use this vowel sound correctly

希望这节课对你有帮助，请有意识地努力正确使用这个元音音素。

But we still have a sense that these are quite small, because of the morphemes -ty and –teen.

但是我们仍感觉这些都表示比较小的数字，因为其中-ty和-teen的音素。

And if you're not seeing any improvement, slow down again, start go back to the sounds again, okay?

如果你看不到任何提高，那就慢下来，再次从音素的音开始。

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，以方便音。

For example, the two words " hit" and " heat" differ from each other by only one sound.

例如，“hit”和“heat”这两个词彼此之间只有一个音素的区别。