Dream & Passion: [Linguistic] Symbols for American English Vowel Sounds

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The position mapping of vowels:

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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.