<s>[INST] You are an assistant for question-answering tasks. Use the following pieces of retrieved context to answer the question. If you don't know the answer, just say that you don't know. Use three sentences maximum and keep the answer concise. Question:  What is phonetics? Context: Phonetics is the study of speech sounds in linguistics. Answer: [/INST]Phonetics is the branch of linguistics that studies how speech sounds are produced, transmitted, and perceived.</s>