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/&/ sounds like the "a" in "dab" // sounds like the "a" in "air" /A/ sounds like the "a" in "far" /eI/ sounds like the "a" in "day" /@/ sounds like the "a" in "ado" or the glide "e" in "system" /-/ sounds like the "ir" glide in "tire" or the "dl" glide in "handle" or the "den" glide in "sodden" /b/ sounds like the "b" in "nab" /tS/ sounds like the "ch" in "ouch" /d/ sounds like the "d" in "pod" /E/ sounds like the "e" in "red" /i/ sounds like the "e" in "see" /f/ sounds like the "f" in "elf" /g/ sounds like the "g" in "fig" /h/ sounds like the "h" in "had" /hw/ sounds like the "w" in "white" /I/ sounds like the "i" in "hid" /aI/ sounds like the "i" in "ice" /dZ/ sounds like the "g" in "vegetably" /k/ sounds like the "c" in "act" /l/ sounds like the "l" in "ail" /m/ sounds like the "m" in "aim" /N/ sounds like the "ng" in "bang" /n/ sounds like the "n" in "and" /Oi/ sounds like the "oi" in "oil" /A/ sounds like the "o" in "bob" /AU/ sounds like the "ow" in "how" /O/ sounds like the "o" in "dog" /oU/ sounds like the "o" in "boat" /u/ sounds like the "oo" in "too" /U/ sounds like the "oo" in "book" /p/ sounds like the "p" in "imp" /r/ sounds like the "r" in "ire" /S/ sounds like the "sh" in "she" /s/ sounds like the "s" in "sip" /T/ sounds like the "th" in "bath" /D/ sounds like the "th" in "the" /t/ sounds like the "t" in "tap" /@/ sounds like the "u" in "cup" /@r/ sounds like the "u" in "burn" /v/ sounds like the "v" in "average" /w/ sounds like the "w" in "win" /j/ sounds like the "y" in "you"
/Z/ sounds like the "s" in "vision" /z/ sounds like the "z" in "zoo"
Stress or emphasis is marked in the data with the primary "'" or secondary "," marks:
"'" marks primary stress "," marks secondary stress.
Moby Pronunciator contains many common names and phrases borrowed from other languages; special sounds include :
"A" sounds like the "a" in "ami" "N" sounds like the "n" in "Francoise" "R" sounds like the "r" in "Der" /x/ sounds like the "ch" in "Bach" /y/ sounds like the "eu" in "cordon bleu" "Y" sounds like the "u" in "Dubois"
Words and Phrases adopted from languages other than English have the unaccented form of the roman spelling. For example, "etude" has an initial accented "e" but is spelled without the accent in the Moby Pronunciator II database.
Each two-part vocabulary record is delimited from others with CRLF .
For example, the entries:
close/v kl/oU/z and close/aj kl/oU/s
effect/n '/I/,f/E/kt and effect/v ,/I/'f/E/kt
distinguish those two parts of speech. in the vocabulary field, followed by one or more of the following part-of-speech abbreviations:
n, v, av, aj, interj, followed by the rest of the pronunciation record.
Acknowledgements: Date: 9-15-93
This directory contains a pronunciation dictionaries containing approximately 100k words and their transcriptions. We use these dictionaries at CMU in our speech understanding systems.
The phone set for this dictionary contains 39 phones, which can be found in phoneset.txt.
Alternate transcriptions are identified with a numeral in parentheses as part of the lexical entry.
We generated this dictionary using the following independent sources: - a 20k+ general English dictionary, built by hand at CMU . - a 200k+ UCLA-proofed version of the shoup dictionary. - a 32k subset of the Dragon dictionary. - a 53k+ dictionary of proper names, synthesiser-generated, unproofed. - a 200k dictionary generated with Orator, unproofed. - a 200k dictionary generated with Mitalk, unproofed.
All entries that occur solely in copyrighted sources, like the Dragon dictionary, are not currently included in this dictionary. If you have words and transcriptions that you would like included in this unrestricted resource, please send them to Robert L. Weide and we will consider them for an upcoming version.
All of the above sources were preprocessed and the transcriptions in the current cmudict.0.1 were selected from the transcriptions in the sources or a combination thereof. We have removed some potentially unreliable transcriptions from this dictionary, including those based on only one source, and will reintroduce them once we have verified the transcriptions.
We welcome input from users: send e-mail to Robert L. Weide for comments and suggestions on the content of the dictionary, or to Peter Jansen for questions regarding the combination process.
Finally, if you add words to or correct words in this dictionary, we would like the additions and corrections sent to us for consideration in a subsequent version. All final entries will be approved by Robert L. Weide and Peter Jansen, editors of the dictionary.
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