Phoneme Table for English (United Kingdom)

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The following tables show the phonemes and prosodic symbols used by the speech recognition engine for English (United Kingdom). These are a subset of the Universal Phone Set (UPS).

Phoneme and prosodic symbol labels are case-sensitive. When used in transcriptions, phonemes must be space-delimited.

Note:
Character groups and plus signs (+) that comprise multi-symbol UPS Label forms must also be space-delimited.

Vowels

UPS Label	Example Word	UPS Transcription of Example Word
AA	fast	F AA S T
AE	fax	F AE K S
AH	bug	B AH G
AI	hive	H AI V
AO	caught	K AO T
AO RA	more	M AO RA
AU	out	AU T
AX	again	AX G EH N
EH	egg	EH G
EH RA	hair	H EH RA
EI	lake	L EI K
ER	her	H ER
I	meal	M I L
I RA	hear	H I RA
IH	ink	IH NG K
O + U	rose	R O + U Z
O AX	boa	B O AX
OI	toy	T OI
Q	top	T Q P
U	food	F U D
U RA	tour	T U RA
UH	look	L UH K

Consonants

UPS Label	Example Word	UPS Transcription of Example Word
AX L	whistle	W IH S AX L
AX M	album	AE L B AX M
AX N	button	B AH T AX N
B	bin	B IH N
CH	chin	CH IH N
D	date	D EI T
DH	this	DH IH S
F	fax	F AE K S
G	gap	G AE P
H	help	H EH L P
J	yacht	J Q T
JH	gin	JH IH N
K	king	K IH NG
L	leg	L EH G
M	mail	M EI L
N	nose	N O + U Z
NG	long	L Q NG
P	price	P RA AI S
RA	ring	RA IH NG
S	sing	S IH NG
SH	shop	SH Q P
T	tip ; ea(t)	T IH P ; I T
TH	thing	TH IH NG
V	very	V EH RA I
W	will	W IH L
Z	zip	Z IH P
ZH	vision	V IH ZH AX N

Prosody

UPS Label	Description	Example Word	UPS Transcription of Example Word
S1	primary stress	stress	S1 S T RA EH S
S2	secondary stress	secondary	S1 S EH . K AX N . S2 D EH . RA I
.	syllable break	vision	S1 V IH . ZH AX N
_^	linking (absence of a break)
_!	intonation - exclamation
_&	intonation - continue
_,	intonation - incompletion rise
_.	intonation ??? fall
_?	intonation - question rise
_s	silence

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