Moby Pronunciation List

Moby (tm) Pronunciator II Documentation Notes
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Public Domain material by grant from the author, January, 2001.
Moby (tm) Pronunciator II for MSDOS operating systems is compressed and distributed as a single zip file. After decompression the hyphanation file included with this product is in ordinary ASCII format with CRLF (ASCII 13/10) delimiters.
MOBY Pronunciator II CONTENTS
Read Me First File (aaREADME.txt) Acknowledgments (abreadme.txt) CMU Dictionary list (cmudict.txt) Pronunciation List (mpron.txt) Phone Set List (phoneset.txt)
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Each pronunciation vocabulary entry consists of a word or phrase field followed by a field delimiter of space and the IPA-equivalent field that is coded using the following ASCII symbols (case is significant). Spaces between words in the word or phrase or pronunciation field is denoted with underbar _ .
/&/ sounds like the a in dab /(@)/ sounds like the a in air /A/ sounds like the a in far /eI/ sounds like the a in day /@/ sounds like the a in ado or the glide e in system (dipthong schwa) /-/ sounds like the ir glide in tire or the dl glide in handle or the den glide in sodden (dipthong little schwa) /b/ sounds like the b in nab /tS/ sounds like the ch in ouch /d/ sounds like the d in pod /E/ sounds like the e in red /i/ sounds like the e in see /f/ sounds like the f in elf /g/ sounds like the g in fig /h/ sounds like the h in had /hw/ sounds like the w in white /I/ sounds like the i in hid /aI/ sounds like the i in ice /dZ/ sounds like the g in vegetably /k/ sounds like the c in act /l/ sounds like the l in ail /m/ sounds like the m in aim /N/ sounds like the ng in bang /n/ sounds like the n in and /Oi/ sounds like the oi in oil /A/ sounds like the o in bob /AU/ sounds like the ow in how /O/ sounds like the o in dog /oU/ sounds like the o in boat /u/ sounds like the oo in too /U/ sounds like the oo in book /p/ sounds like the p in imp /r/ sounds like the r in ire /S/ sounds like the sh in she /s/ sounds like the s in sip /T/ sounds like the th in bath /D/ sounds like the th in the /t/ sounds like the t in tap /@/ sounds like the u in cup /@r/ sounds like the u in burn /v/ sounds like the v in average /w/ sounds like the w in win /j/ sounds like the y in you