Yeah. But words would be a nice
But , words aren't bad , yeah. And  and
Yeah , so the common  right , the common wisdom is you can't do words because there 's too many of them , right ? So you have to have some smaller set that you can use , uh , and  and so everybody goes to phonemes. But the problem is that we  we build models of words in terms of phonemes and these models are  are really cartoon - ish , right ? So when you look at conversational speech , for example , you don't see the phonemes that you  that you have in your word models.
Yeah. But  but  but we 're not trying for models of words here. See , so her here 's maybe where  If the issue is that we 're trying to come up with , um , some sort of intermediate categories which will then be useful for later stuff , uh , then  maybe it doesn't matter that we can't have enough