CMU Pronouncing Dictionary

registration: 2007/09/08 12:40:50, last modified: 2007/09/08 12:40:50
title
  • CMU Pronouncing Dictionary
title.abbreviation
title.alternative
creator
  • Kevin A. Lenzo
subject
  • machine-reader pronunciation dictionary
  • speech recognition and synthesis
subject.linguisticField
  • lexicography
subject.monoMultilingual
  • monolingual
subject.resourceSubject
  • dictionary
description
  • The Carnegie Mellon University Pronouncing Dictionary is a machine-readable pronunciation dictionary for North American English that contains over 125,000 words and their transcriptions. This format is particularly useful for speech recognition and synthesis, as it has mappings from words to their pronunciations in the given phoneme set. The current phoneme set contains 39 phonemes, for which the vowels may carry lexical stress.
description.price *This metadata is only as a guide
  • free
description.language
  • English
description.inputDevice
description.inputEnvironment
description.speakingStyle
description.speechMode
description.samplingRate
description.additionalData
publisher
  • sphinx+web@cs.cmu.edu.
contributor
  • Carnegie Mellon University
  • http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/speech/
contributor.attribute.author.motherTongue
contributor.attribute.author.dialect
contributor.attribute.author.level
contributor.attribute.author.age
contributor.attribute.author.gender
contributor.attribute.speaker.motherTongue
contributor.attribute.speaker.dialect
contributor.attribute.speaker.level
contributor.attribute.speaker.age
contributor.attribute.speaker.gender
contributor.attribute.speaker.number
date.created
date.issued
date.modified
type
  • Text
type.discourseType
type.linguisticType
type.purpose
  • lexicography a machine-readable pronunciation dictionary for North American English
type.style
  • speech recognition and synthesis
type.form
type.sentence
type.annotation
type.annotationSample
type.sample
  • Phoneme Set
    The current phoneme set has 39 phonemes, not counting varia for lexical stress.
    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
format.extent
  • 125,000 words
  • 39 phonemes
format.medium
  • download
  • the CMU dictionary (v. 0.6)
  • ftp://ftp.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/data/anonftp/project/fgdata/dict/
format.encoding
format.markup
format.functionality
  • Language Factory
  • Decoder Configurer (a)
  • Decoder Configurer (b)
identifier
identifier.doi
identifier.islrn
source
language
  • English North American
language.area
  • Europe
relation
relation.utilization *This metadata is automatically extracted
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