Moby (tm) Pronunciator II Documentation Notes
22 June 93



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LEGEND





Each pronunciation vocabulary entry consists of a word or phrase
field followed by
 a field delimiter of space " " and the IPA-equivalent
field that is coded using
 the following ASCII symbols (case is
significant). Spaces between words in the 
word or phrase or
pronunciation field is denoted with underbar "_".


/&/     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" (dipthong schwa)
/-/     sounds like the "ir" glide in "tire"
or the  "dl" glide in "handle"
or the "den" glide in "sodden" (dipthong little schwa)
/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:

 "'" (uncurled apostrophe) marks primary
stress
"," (comma) marks secondary stress. Moby Pronunciator
contains many common names and phrases borrowed from
other languages; special sounds include (case is significant):

 

"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 (ASCII 13/10)
.

SPECIAL FEATURE OF THIS LEXICON: 
several hundred words pronounced
 differently because of
their part-speech have been distinguished. 

For example,the entries:



close/v kl/oU/z  and  close/aj kl/oU/s

(terminal sibilant varies)

or
effect/n '/I/,f/E/kt  and  effect/v ,/I/'f/E/kt
(stress varies)



distinguish those two parts of speech. (Any word with this
information will 
terminate with the virgule (slash) 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.



