| provides a set of 3-letter feature abbreviations allowing a phoneme to be | provides a set of 3-letter feature abbreviations allowing a phoneme to be | ||||
| described as a sequence of features. | described as a sequence of features. | ||||
| This document is grouped into three sections. The first section displays the IPA | |||||
| charts using the feature names instead of their names, showing the IPA phoneme | |||||
| at that position in the chart. This makes it easier to look up the features for | |||||
| a given IPA phoneme. | |||||
| The second section lists the features and their associated name. The Wikipedia | |||||
| IPA<sup>\[<a href="#ref4">4</a>\]</sup> article can be used as a starting point | |||||
| into the various phonetic topics contained in this document. | |||||
| The third section describes the properties (named values) used to describe the | |||||
| phonemes. These, in addition to the features, should allow all possible phonemes | |||||
| from any language to be described. | |||||
| The goal of this document is not to provide a detailed guide on phonetics. | |||||
| Instead, it is designed to be a transcription guide on how to specify phonemes | |||||
| in a language or voice so that the narrow transcriptions are consistent between | |||||
| the two. | |||||
| This document extends Evan Kirshenbaum's feature set to be able to describe the | |||||
| different phonemes in the IPA and as are used in the various languages of the | |||||
| world. | |||||
| The goal of this document is not to provide a detailed guide on phonetics. Nor | |||||
| is it intended to be able to accurately record differences in IPA diacritics. | |||||
| Instead, it is designed to be a transcription guide for authors of espeak-ng | |||||
| languages and voices on how to specify phonemes so that the IPA and feature | |||||
| transcriptions are consistent. | |||||
| __NOTE:__ This model is in the process of being implemented. As such, the | |||||
| current implementation does not reflect this document. | |||||
| ## Consonants | ## Consonants | ||||