43. The method of claim 39 wherein the speech unit of the speech corpus is a Phone-and-Transition (P&T) speech unit in which a beginning and an end of at least one phone or transition component have been labeled.
43. The method of claim 39 wherein the speech unit of the speech corpus is a Phone-and-Transition (P&T) speech unit in which a beginning and an end of at least one phone or transition component have been labeled. 44. The method of claim 43 wherein the speech unit of the speech corpus is adapted by application of one or more P&T adaptations prior to the step of concatenating.