Who cares about phonemes?
Analyzing phonemes means that the LSM does not recognize inbreaths, outbreaths, laughter, burps, grunts, bangs, pops, musical notes, kitchen clatter, or other non-linguistic sounds. These sounds are not linguistic sounds or phonemes — they don’t make up words — so the LSM doesn’t recognize them. Instead, it is likely to recognize them as “silence”. Is the creak of a door a phoneme? No, so LSM won’t recognize it. Sounds as Phonemes However, if such a sound is close enough to English sounds that you can give it a reasonably accurate rendering in phonemes, then the LSM is likely to find it successfully and accurately in the waveform. For example, the sound of a breath, or of blowing out a candle, is not part of any word, but it still sounds identical to an /h/, so if you tell the LSM to look for an /h/, it’ll locate it for you just fine. Another example is a 1000-Hz tone, which is often used as a start-time marker in audio tracks for animation. This tone is not a linguistic sound — wor
