Arpabet
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Arpabet is a phonetic alphabet developed by ARPA as a part of their Speech Understanding Project (1971-1976), as a way to represent phonemes with ASCII characters. It has been used in several speech synthesizers, like SAM for the Commodore 64, Say for the Amiga and TextAssist for the PC. It is also used in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary.
[edit] Symbols
In Arpabet, every phoneme is represented by one or two capital letters. Digits are used as stress indicators (the higher the digit value, the higher the stress) and are placed at the end of the stressed syllabic vowel. Punctuation marks are used like in the written language, to represent intonation changes at the end of clauses and sentences. The stress values are:
| Value | Description |
|---|---|
| 0 | No stress |
| 1 | Primary stress |
| 2 | Secondary stress |
The following codes are used to represent IPA characters:
| Symbol | IPA (GA) |
|---|---|
| IY | i |
| UW | u |
| IH | ɪ |
| UH | ʊ |
| EH | ɛ |
| ER | ɝ |
| AH | ə |
| AE | æ |
| AO | ɔ |
| AO R | ɔɹ |
| AA R | ɑɹ |
| AA | ɑ |
| IH R | ɪɹ |
| UH R | ʊɹ |
| EY | eɪ |
| OW | oʊ |
| EH R | ɛɹ |
| OY | ɔɪ |
| AY | aɪ |
| AW | aʊ |
| P | p |
| B | b |
| T | t |
| CH | ʧ |
| D | d |
| JH | ʤ |
| K | k |
| G | g |
| M | m |
| N | n |
| NG | ŋ |
| F | f |
| V | v |
| TH | θ |
| DH | ð |
| S | s |
| Z | z |
| SH | ʃ |
| ZH | ʒ |
| HH | h |
| R | ɹ |
| Y | j |
| L | l |
| W | w |
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