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The English language support uses a vowel system based on John Wells' Lexical |
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Sets<sup>\[<a href="#ref1">1</a>\]</sup>. These were created by Wells in 1982 |
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by comparing the Received Pronunciation British (RP) and General American |
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(GenAm) accents in use at that time. |
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The `en` transcriptions listed below are the phonemes used by eSpeak NG to |
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transcribe the different lexical sets. |
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(GenAm) accents in use at that time. The following accents are supported by |
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eSpeak NG and are referenced in this document: |
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| BCP47 | Abbreviation | Accent Name | |
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|----------------|--------------|------------------------| |
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| en | | British English | |
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| en-029 | | Caribbean | |
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| en-GB-scotland | ScE | Scottish English | |
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| en-GB-x-gbclan | | Lancastrian | |
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| en-GB-x-gbcwmd | | West Midlands | |
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| en-GB-x-rp | RP | Received Pronunciation | |
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| en-US | GenAm | General American | |
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The BCP47 name is the standard language identifier for the accent, used as the |
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espeak language name. The Abbreviation is used in the lexical set tables below |
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for the IPA transcriptions of that accent, and the BCP47 names are used for the |
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eSpeak NG phoneme names. |
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## Short Vowels |
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__NOTE:__ `/i@3/` is used for the NEAR lexical set to differentiate it from |
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`/i@/` used in words like `million`. |
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Additionally, espeak-ng has the following phonemes for different accents: |
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| Lexical Set | en | en-GB-scotland | RP | ScE | |
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|-------------|-------|----------------|-------|-------| |
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| NURSE | `3:` | `VR` | ɜː | ʌɾ | |
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| TERM | `3:` | `3:` | ɜː | ɛɾ | |
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| BIRD | `3:` | `IR` | ɜː | ɪɾ | |
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## Reduced Vowels |
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These are unstressed vowels that differ from the vowels in the main lexical sets. |
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1. <a name="ref1"></a> Wikipedia. |
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[Lexical set](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexical_set). 2017. |
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Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA). |
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2. <a name="ref2"></a> Wikipedia. |
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[IPA chart for English dialects](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet_chart_for_English_dialects). |
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2018. Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA). |