/Z/ sounds like the "s" in "vision" /z/ sounds like the "z" in "zoo"
Stress or emphasis is marked in the data with the primary "'" or secondary "," marks:
"'" (uncurled apostrophe) marks primary stress "," (comma) marks secondary stress.
Moby Pronunciator contains many common names and phrases borrowed from other languages; special sounds include (case is significant):
"A" sounds like the "a" in "ami" "N" sounds like the "n" in "Francoise" "R" sounds like the "r" in "Der" /x/ sounds like the "ch" in "Bach" /y/ sounds like the "eu" in "cordon bleu" "Y" sounds like the "u" in "Dubois"
Words and Phrases adopted from languages other than English have the unaccented form of the roman spelling. For example, "etude" has an initial accented "e" but is spelled without the accent in the Moby Pronunciator II database.
Each two-part vocabulary record is delimited from others with CRLF
(ASCII 13/10).
SPECIAL FEATURE OF THIS LEXICON: several hundred words pronounced differently because of their part-speech have been distinguished.
For example, the entries:
close/v kl/oU/z and close/aj kl/oU/s (terminal sibilant varies)