or
effect/n '/I/,f/E/kt and effect/v ,/I/'f/E/kt (stress varies)
distinguish those two parts of speech. (Any word with this information will terminate with the virgule (slash) in the vocabulary field, followed by one or more of the following part-of-speech abbreviations:
n, v, av, aj, interj, followed by the rest of the pronunciation record.
Acknowledgements:
Date: 9-15-93
This directory contains a pronunciation dictionaries (cmudict.txt is the most up-to-date) containing approximately 100k words and their transcriptions. We use these dictionaries at CMU in our speech understanding systems.
The phone set for this dictionary contains 39 phones, which can be found in phoneset.txt.
Stress is indicated by means of a numeral [012] attached to a vowel:
0 = no stress
1 = primary stress
2 = secondary stress
Alternate transcriptions are identified with a numeral in parentheses as part of the lexical entry.
We generated this dictionary using the following independent sources: - a 20k+ general English dictionary, built by hand at CMU (extensively proofed and used). - a 200k+ UCLA-proofed version of the shoup dictionary. - a 32k subset of the Dragon dictionary. - a 53k+ dictionary of proper names, synthesiser-generated, unproofed. - a 200k dictionary generated with Orator, unproofed. - a 200k dictionary generated with Mitalk, unproofed.