xenophone

English

Etymology

From xeno- +‎ -phone.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈzɛn.ə.fəʊn/

• Audio (US):

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• Homophone: Xenophon

Noun

xenophone (plural xenophones)

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

Translations

A sound in speech that is not native to a language

• Finnish: vieras äänne

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. [1]

Also see:
Xenophone In: Jack. S. Damico & Martin J. Ball (eds.): The SAGE Encyclopedia of Human Communication Sciences and Disorders, Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE Publications, ISBN 978-1-4833-4, volume 4, pp. 2127–2129.

Also see: [2] http://xenophones.info