1. A method of identifying words in a speech segment, said method comprising: obtaining, by a device, a speech segment; and determining, by the device, one or more words of the speech segment, said determining, for a word, comprising: identifying one or more soundlets within the word, wherein a soundlet of the one or more soundlets has a sound wave associated therewith, the sound wave having a sound wave contour, and the identifying for the soundlet comprises: analyzing the sound wave contour of at least a portion of the sound wave of the soundlet to determine one or more variations within the sound wave contour; assigning one or more features to the one or more variations; and mapping the one or more features to one or more sound constructs, wherein the one or more sound constructs are at least part of the word.
1. A method of identifying words in a speech segment, said method comprising: obtaining, by a device, a speech segment; and determining, by the device, one or more words of the speech segment, said determining, for a word, comprising: identifying one or more soundlets within the word, wherein a soundlet of the one or more soundlets has a sound wave associated therewith, the sound wave having a sound wave contour, and the identifying for the soundlet comprises: analyzing the sound wave contour of at least a portion of the sound wave of the soundlet to determine one or more variations within the sound wave contour; assigning one or more features to the one or more variations; and mapping the one or more features to one or more sound constructs, wherein the one or more sound constructs are at least part of the word. 6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the mapping comprises: sequencing out at least a portion of features of the one or more features to provide a feature sequence; and comparing the feature sequence to one or more defined sequences to identify one or more sound constructs of a selected language.