CMU Pronouncing Dictionary

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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary
Developed by	Carnegie Mellon University
Latest release	0.6 / 11 August 1998
Available in	English
Development status	Unmaintained
License	Public Domain
Website	Homepage

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (also known as cmudict) is a public domain pronouncing dictionary created by Carnegie Mellon University. It is used as the American lexicon for the Festival Speech Synthesis System. The latest release is 0.6, which contains 127,069 entries.

Contents 1 Database Format 2 History 3 License 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Database Format

The database is distributed as a text file of the format word <two spaces> pronunciation. If there are multiple pronunciations available for a word, all subsequent entries are followed by an index in parentheses. The pronunciation is encoded using the Arpabet system. For example, the following pronunciations are available for encyclopedia:

 ENCYCLOPEDIA  AH0 N S AY2 K L AH0 P IY1 D IY0 AH0
 ENCYCLOPEDIA(2)  AH0 N S AY2 K L OW0 P IY1 D IY0 AH0

[edit] History

Version	Release date [1]
0.1	16 September 1993
0.2	10 March 1994
0.3	28 September 1994
0.4	8 November 1995
0.5	No public release
0.6	11 August 1998

[edit] License

The dictionary is released under the following license:

 The Carnegie Mellon Pronouncing Dictionary [cmudict.0.6] is Copyright 1998
 by Carnegie Mellon University. Use of this dictionary, for any research or
 commercial purpose, is completely unrestricted.  If you make use of or
 redistribute this material, we would appreciate acknowledgement of its
 origin.

[edit] References

1. ^ ftp://ftp.cs.cmu.edu/project/speech/dict/

[edit] External links

• Homepage - includes database search
• RDF converted to Resource Description Framework by the open source Texai project.