Phoneme Table for Spanish (United States)

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The following tables show the phonemes and prosodic symbols used by the speech recognition engine for Spanish (United States). 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 that comprise multi-symbol UPS Label forms also must be space-delimited.

Vowels

UPS Label	Example Word	UPS Transcription of Example Word
A	vaca	B A K A
A J	aire	A J DX E
A W	causa	K A W S A
E	pero	P E DX O
E J	Abeij??n	A B E J X O N
E W	Europa	E W DX O P A
I	pico	P I K O
O	toro	T O DX O
O J	sois	S O J S
O W	Souto	S O W T O
U	duro	D U DX O

Consonants

UPS Label	Example Word	UPS Transcription of Example Word
B	vino ; cabra	B I N O ; K A B DX A
CH	mucho	M U CH O
CJ	yeg??a	CJ E G W A
D	nada	N A D A
DX	puro	P U DX O
F	f??cil	F A S I L
G	gata	G A T A
J	viudo	B J U D O
K	casa	K A S A
L	largo	L A DX G O
LJ	caballo	K A B A LJ O
M	masa	M A S A
N	noche	N O CH E
NJ	a??o	A NJ O
P	padre	P A D DX E
RR	torre	T O RR E
S	cielo ; isla	S J E L O ; I S L A
T	antes	A N T E S
W	suave	S W A B E
X	mujer	M U X E DX

Prosody

UPS Label	Description	Example Word	UPS Transcription of Example Word
S1	primary stress	se??or	S E I . S1 NJ O DX
S2	secondary stress	se??orita	S2 S E I . NJ O . S1 DX I . T A
.	syllable break	Isla	S1 I S . L A
_!	intonation - exclamation
_&	intonation - continue
_,	intonation - incompletion rise
_.	intonation ??? fall
_?	intonation - question rise
_s	silence

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