Moby (tm) Pronunciator II Documentation Notes
This documentation, the software and/or database are:
Public Domain material by grant from the author, January, 2001.
Moby (tm) Pronunciator II for MSDOS operating systems is compressedand distributed as a single zip file. After decompression thehyphanation file included with this product is in ordinary ASCIIformat with CRLF (ASCII 13/10) delimiters.
MOBY Pronunciator II CONTENTS
Read Me First File (aaREADME.txt)
Acknowledgments (abreadme.txt)
CMU Dictionary list (cmudict.txt)
Pronunciation List (mpron.txt)
Phone Set List (phoneset.txt)
Quick Start1) Insure you have at least 9Mb of free disk space to hold the contents of this zip file.2) Create a directory to hold these files listed above.3) Extract the contents of this zip file into the destination directory using any compatible zip file extraction utility.4) Delete the original zip file from your disk to save space. (optional)
Each pronunciation vocabulary entry consists of a word or phrasefield followed by a field delimiter of space " " and theIPA-equivalent field that is coded using the following ASCII symbols(case is significant). Spaces between words in the word or phrase orpronunciation field is denoted with underbar "_".
/&/ sounds like the "a" in "dab"/(@)/ sounds like the "a" in "air"/A/ sounds like the "a" in "far"/eI/ sounds like the "a" in "day"/@/ sounds like the "a" in "ado"or the glide "e" in "system" (dipthong schwa)/-/ sounds like the "ir" glide in "tire"or the "dl" glide in "handle"or the "den" glide in "sodden" (dipthong little schwa)/b/ sounds like the "b" in "nab"/tS/ sounds like the "ch" in "ouch"/d/ sounds like the "d" in "pod"/E/ sounds like the "e" in "red"/i/ sounds like the "e" in "see"/f/ sounds like the "f" in "elf"/g/ sounds like the "g" in "fig"/h/ sounds like the "h" in "had"/hw/ sounds like the "w" in "white"/I/ sounds like the "i" in "hid"/aI/ sounds like the "i" in "ice"/dZ/ sounds like the "g" in "vegetably"/k/ sounds like the "c" in "act"/l/ sounds like the "l" in "ail"/m/ sounds like the "m" in "aim"/N/ sounds like the "ng" in "bang"/n/ sounds like the "n" in "and"/Oi/ sounds like the "oi" in "oil"/A/ sounds like the "o" in "bob"/AU/ sounds like the "ow" in "how"/O/ sounds like the "o" in "dog"/oU/ sounds like the "o" in "boat"/u/ sounds like the "oo" in "too"/U/ sounds like the "oo" in "book"/p/ sounds like the "p" in "imp"/r/ sounds like the "r" in "ire"/S/ sounds like the "sh" in "she"/s/ sounds like the "s" in "sip"/T/ sounds like the "th" in "bath"/D/ sounds like the "th" in "the"/t/ sounds like the "t" in "tap"/@/ sounds like the "u" in "cup"/@r/ sounds like the "u" in "burn"/v/ sounds like the "v" in "average"/w/ sounds like the "w" in "win"/j/ sounds like the "y" in "you"
/Z/ sounds like the "s" in "vision"/z/ sounds like the "z" in "zoo"
Stress or emphasis is marked in the data with the primary "'" orsecondary "," marks:
"'" (uncurled apostrophe) marks primary stress"," (comma) marks secondary stress.
Moby Pronunciator contains many common names and phrases borrowed fromother languages; special sounds include (case is significant):
"A" sounds like the "a" in "ami""N" sounds like the "n" in "Franc