Phonetic Spelling Reference

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

Note that, mixed case words (CamelCase A typographic convention where each word in a multi-word name is capitalized. So-named because the capitals visually suggest a camel's humps.) 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