24. The system of claim 20 , said system being implemented in at least one of a cochlear implant, a portable electronic device, an automatic speech recognition device, and a hearing aid.
20. A system for phone detection, the system comprising: an acoustic transducer configured to receive a speech signal, wherein the speech signal is generated in an acoustic domain a feature detector configured to receive the speech signal and to generate a feature signal indicating a temporal location, wherein the temporal location is in the speech signal and is where a speech sound feature occurs; and a phone detector configured to receive the feature signal and, based on the feature signal, identify, in the acoustic domain, a consonant-vowel (CV) speech sound included in the speech signal, wherein the CV speech sound is identified, by the system, from among a set of CV speech sounds comprising the identified CV speech sound and a plurality of other CV speech sounds, wherein the identified CV speech sound has at least one of a time value and a frequency value, and wherein each of the plurality of other CV speech sounds has a time value or a frequency value which is different than that of the identified CV speech sound wherein the plurality of CV speech sounds comprise /pa, ta, ka, ba, da, ga, fa, θa, sa, ∫a, δa, va, ca/.