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PHONEMES


The following phonemes codes are included. Other languages could: The included phonemes include those of British English, with a few extra for convenience (eg. [I2] is a version of [I] which has an "unstressed" property). Also there are a few additional phonemes which are not in standard British English but are common in other languages.

The phoneme mnemonics are based on the scheme by Kirschenbaum: www.kirshenbaum.net/IPA/ascii-ipa.pdf, which gives the International Phonetic Alphabet equivalents.

Phoneme mnemonics can be used directly in the text input to speak. They are enclosed within double square brackets. Spaces are used to separate words and all stressed syllables must be marked explicitly. eg:
[[D,Is Iz sVm f@n'EtIk t'Ekst 'InpUt]]

Notes:
  1. [0]  (digit zero) is used rather than the Kirschenbaum symbol [A.] (rounded [A]).
  2. [aa] is used in those cases where the pronunciation changes from [a] to [A:] between northern and southern British English.
  3. [a2] is used as a more open variant of schwa [@] in words where an unstressed [a] is reduced to schwa.
  4. [3:] is used rather than the Kirschenbaum symbol [R].
  5. [O@] is used as an alternative symbol to [O:], with the same sound, where the spelling has a following 'r' which has been absorbed into the vowel. This would allow different sounds for 'thought' and 'force' if required.
  6. The additional non English vowels are not expected to be accurate and will doubtless require modification.
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