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Terms vs Xenophone - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between terms and xenophone

is that terms is while xenophone is (phonetics) a sound in speech that is not native to the language being spoken; a sound from a foreign language.

terms

English

Noun

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    xenophone

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (phonetics) A sound in speech that is not native to the language being spoken; a sound from a foreign language

    • References

    The term was introduced in: Robert Eklund & Anders Lindström. 1998. How To Handle “Foreign” Sounds in Swedish Text-to-Speech Conversion: Approaching the ‘Xenophone’ Problem. Proceedings of The International Conference on Spoken Language Processing , 30 November–5 December 1998, Sydney, Australia. Paper 514, vol. 7, pp. 2831–2834. [http://www.ida.liu.se/~g-robek/icslp98xeno.pdf] Also see: [http://xenophones.info] http://xenophones.info