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/.
25. The system of claim 20 , wherein the location of the speech sound feature is defined by feature location data generated by an analysis of at least two dimensions of the identified speech sound, the at least two dimensions including at least two of time, frequency, and intensity.