The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en-US" xml:lang="en-US"> <head> <title>The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> </head> <body> <BODY bgcolor=#ffffff> <title>The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary</title> <h1> <a href="http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/tools/"> <IMG SRC="http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/images/Sphinx-plate.png" HEIGHT=100 WIDTH=100 ALIGN=CENTER BORDER=0></a> The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary</h1> <center> <a href="#lookup">query</a> | <a href="#phones">phonemes | </a>  <a href="#about">about</a> | | <a href="http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/">Speech at CMU</a> | <a href="http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/tools/">Speech Tools</a> </center> <a name="lookup"> <hr> <h3 style="font-size:larger"> <IMG SRC="http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/images/gifs/blueball.gif"> Look up the pronunciation for a word or phrase in CMUdict (version 0.7b)</h3></a> <UL> <form> <input style="font-size:larger" name="in" size=40 type=text value="C M U Dictionary"> <input style="font-size:larger" type="submit" value="Look It Up"><br> <INPUT style="font-size:larger" TYPE="checkbox" NAME="stress" VALUE="-s"> Show Lexical Stress </form> </UL> Did you spot an error? Please contact the maintainers! We will check it out. (See at bottom for contact information.) <br/><br/></br> <hr> <h3><IMG SRC="http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/images/gifs/blueball.gif"> Download the current CMU dictionary from SourceForge and GitHub</h3> <DD> <ul> <li> <tt><A HREF="http://svn.code.sf.net/p/cmusphinx/code/trunk/cmudict/">http://svn.code.sf.net/p/cmusphinx/code/trunk/cmudict</a></tt></li> <li><tt><a href="https://github.com/Alexir/CMUdict/blob/master/cmudict-0.7b">https://github.com/Alexir/CMUdict/blob/master/cmudict-0.7b</a></tt>.</li> <li> and try: <a href="http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/tools/lextool.html">this tool</a> </ul> <dd> <p><b>Note: </b> If you are looking for a dictionary for use with a speech recognizer, this dictionary is not the one that you are looking for. <br/>For that purpose, see <ul> <li><tt><A HREF="http://svn.code.sf.net/p/cmusphinx/code/trunk/cmudict/sphinxdict/">http://svn.code.sf.net/p/cmusphinx/code/trunk/cmudict/sphinxdict</a></tt></li> </ul> <p> </dd> </DD> <a name="about"> <hr> <h3><IMG SRC="http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/images/gifs/yellowball.gif"> About the CMU dictionary</h3></a> <DD> The <b><A HREF="http://www.cmu.edu/">Carnegie Mellon University</A> Pronouncing Dictionary</b> is an open-source machine-readable pronunciation dictionary for North American English that contains over <b>134,000 words</b> and their pronunciations. CMUdict is being actively maintained and expanded. We are open to suggestions, corrections and other input.<p> </DD> <DD> Its entries are <b>particularly useful for speech recognition and synthesis</b>, as it has mappings from words to their pronunciations in the ARPAbet phoneme set, a standard for English pronunciation. The current phoneme set contains 39 phonemes, vowels carry a lexical stress marker: <UL> <tt style="font-size: 125%">0</tt>    — No stress<br> <tt style="font-size: 125%">1</tt>    — Primary stress<br> <tt style="font-size: 125%">2</tt>    — Secondary stress<br> </UL> </DD> <DD> Bear in mind that this is a dictionary. <b>If your word is not in the dictionary</b> (or was misspelled) nothing will be returned. This also applies to items such as numbers; you should spell out what you need. This <a href="http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/tools/lextool.html">tool</a> will try to come up with pronunciations for words not in the dictionary. Please feel free to send word suggestions or point to errors inpronunciation. Bear in mind the language changes over time, in particular novel words may not be in the dictionary; you can make suggestions for ones that seem to be here gor a while. </DD> <DD>  </DD> <A name="phones"><HR> <H3><IMG SRC="http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/images/gifs/yellowball.gif"> Phoneme Set</H3></A3> The current phoneme set has 39 phonemes, not counting varia due to lexical stress. This phoneme (or more accurately, phone) set is based on the ARPAbet symbol set developed for speech recognition uses. You can find a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arpabet">description of the ARPAbet on Wikipedia</a>, as well information on how it relates to the standard IPA symbol set. If you check off the stress box you will get a pronunciation in which vowels are annotated (see above). Stress is difficult to get right and people disagree about it. There are words in the language that differentiate by stress (e.g. <tt>PR'OGRESS PROGR'ESS</tt>). <PRE> Phoneme Example Translation ------- ------- ----------- AA odd AA D AE at AE T AH hut HH AH T AO ought AO T AW cow K AW AY hide HH AY D B be B IY CH cheese CH IY Z D dee D IY DH thee DH IY EH Ed EH D ER hurt HH ER T EY ate EY T F fee F IY G green G R IY N HH he HH IY IH it IH T IY eat IY T JH gee JH IY K key K IY L lee L IY M me M IY N knee N IY NG ping P IH NG OW oat OW T OY toy T OY P pee P IY R read R IY D S sea S IY SH she SH IY T tea T IY TH theta TH EY T AH UH hood HH UH D UW two T UW V vee V IY W we W IY Y yield Y IY L D Z zee Z IY ZH seizure S IY ZH ER </PRE> <hr> <font size =-1> <i>This cgi was created by <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinlenzo">kevin lenzo</a>, and the source code is freely available. <br/> For correspondence about this interface, including options you'd like to see, please email    air -at ´cs‘cmu→ εdυ </font> <script> (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga'); ga('create', 'UA-627961-4', 'auto'); ga('send', 'pageview'); </script> </body> </html>

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