Monday, March 7, 2011

[Linguistic] Symbols for American English Vowel Sounds

From: 
The position mapping of vowels:

Vowel chart

The Sun name for the phoneme is the one used in speech recognition. 

A typical dialect of American English has about 15 distinctive vowel sounds. Here their symbols are linked to Sun-style .au samples lifted from the

ibiblio (Sunsite) archive (where they are listed without the .au extension).
  • The first symbol is the International Phonetic Association (IPA) symbol for the sound. (For the diphthongs, the American style of transcription is to use a -y where the standard IPA uses a 'j'.)
  • The second is the Sun name for the phoneme sample (which is in most cases the same as the symbol used by First Byte in Monologue for Windows and its DOS forebears).
  • The third symbol is the ipa-ascii symbol (an alphabet for use on Usenet groups and email).
  • The fourth column has the symbol that Rsynth displays in its verbose mode.
  • The fifth column contains the SAMPA symbol--as you can see, the differences among these alphabets are minor.
  • Each row concludes with a key word for the sound.

Front Vowels
IPAS u nIPAasciiRsynthSampaKeyWord
h
i
g
h
l
o
w
IYiii beet
IHIH IIIbit
EY EYeIeIebait
EHEHEe Ebet
AE&&{at
Back Vowels
IPAS u nIPAasciiRsynthSampaKeyWord
h
i
g
h
.
l
o
w
UYu uuboot
UHUUUbook
OWoUoUo boat
AO OOOcause
AAa/AAAcot 1
Central Vowels
IPAS u nIPAascii RsynthSampaKeyWord
AX@@@about
AHVVV but2
Diphthongs
IPAS u nIPAasciiRsynthSampaKeyWord
AYaIaIaIbite
OYOIOIOI boy
AW AUaUaUbough


Some links:

http://faculty.washington.edu/dillon/PhonResources/PhonResources.html#Recog

http://www.ibiblio.org/sounds/phonemes/

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vowel mapping.pdf View this on Posterous

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