Triphone

{{Short description|Sequence of three consecutive phonemes}}

In linguistics, a triphone is a sequence of three consecutive phonemes.{{cite book|title=Speech and Language Processing |first1=Daniel |last1=Jurafsky |first2=James H. |last2=Martin |publisher=Prentice Hall |year=2008 |isbn=978-0-13-187321-6 |page=346 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fZmj5UNK8AQC&pg=PA346}} Triphones are useful in models of natural language processing where they are used to establish the various contexts in which a phoneme can occur in a particular natural language.