Case 4 Joseph is working in a modern office with speech recognition equipment and machines such as computers that produce sounds resembling spoken words. His first step is to train the computer to recognize his speaking style, taking into account his accent, pronunciation, and idiomatic expressions. "Reh" and "gay" are ____ to a speech synthesizer.
A) audio files
B) bitmaps
C) phonemes
D) wavetables

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"Reh" and "gay" are phonemes, which are the smallest units of sound in a language that can change the meaning of a word. Speech recognition software and synthesizers use phonemes to recognize and produce spoken language. Audio files (A) are recordings of sound, bitmaps (B) are images, and wavetables (D) are used in synthesizers for creating sounds.

Case 4 Joseph Is Working in a Modern Office with Speech