"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"

/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)

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