Phonetic Spelling Reference

Use the following phonemes in the VTScada Lexicon Dialog to control the sound of spoken words.

Note that, mixed case words are broken into shorter syllables (lower case letters) and individually pronounced letters (upper case letters). Thus, "VTScada" is pronounced "Vee Tee Scada".

Phoneme	Example	Phoneme	Example
-	syllable boundary (hyphen)	h	h as in help
!	sentence terminator (exclamation mark)	ih	i as in fill
&	word boundary	iy	ee as in feel
,	sentence terminator (comma)	jh	j as in joy
.	sentence terminator (period)	k	c as in cut
?	sentence terminator (question mark)	l	l as in lid
_	silence (underscore)	m	m as in mat
1	primary stress	n	n as in no
2	secondary stress	ng	ng as in sing
aa	a as in father	ow	o as in go
ae	a as in cat	oy	o as in toy
ah	u as in cut	p	p as in put
ao	o as in dog	r	r as in red
aw	ou as in foul	s	s as in sit
ax	a as in ago	sh	sh as in she
ay	i as in bite	t	t as in talk
b	b as in big	th	th as in thin
ch	ch as in chin	uh	oo as in book
d	d as in dig	uw	oo as in too
dh	th as in then	v	v as in vat
eh	e as in pet	w	w as in with
er	ur as in fur	y	y as in yard
ey	a as in ate	z	z as in zap
f	f as in fork	zh	s as in pleasure
g	g as in gut