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Phoneme counts and notes

Douglas Bagnall edited this page Aug 17, 2012 · 1 revision

Phoneme counts in various dictionaries. The espeak one in mapped from IPA to CMU arpabet.

phone    example        all        cmu       beep   voxforge     espeak
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    N        not      20852       5647       4960       5642       4603
   IH        pit      19745       5525       5967       1844       6409
    T        ten      19475       5535       4930       4501       4509
    S       some      17903       4839       4221       4861       3982
    R        run      15871       4438       4017       4431       2985
   AH       putt      14895       7281        830        761       6023
    L       like      14431       3841       3473       3839       3278
    K        can      13704       3682       3330       3675       3017
    D        den      12918       3645       3095       3279       2899
   AX      about      11544                  5017       6527           
   EH        pet       9822       2711       2059       2709       2343
    Z       zeal       9364       2571       2210       2566       2017
    P        put       9130       2454       2209       2455       2012
    M        man       8165       2167       1991       2164       1843
   IY       bean       8079       2797       1743       2736        803
   AE        pat       6202       1697       1378       1692       1435
   EY        bay       5944       1580       1435       1579       1350
   ER       burn       5772       2396        519       2392        465
    B        but       4949       1297       1232       1286       1134
    F       full       4876       1306       1181       1304       1085
   NG       long       4454       1181       1068       1176       1029
   AY        buy       4435       1163       1089       1162       1021
    V       very       4365       1204       1020       1210        931
   AO       born       4216        899        700        898       1719
   SH       ship       3848       1017        935       1014        882
   IX          -       3746                             3746           
   AA       barn       3575       1339        561       1335        340
   UW       boon       3094        837        690        834        733
   OW         no       2764        956        860        948           
    G       game       2735        736        660        732        607
   JH       Jane       2636        741        605        743        547
    W       went       2630        733        608        736        553
    Y        yes       2198        540        601        539        518
   HH        hat       1896        509        459        506        422
   CH      chain       1632        442        397        442        351
   UH       good       1606        183        233        182       1008
   DX          -       1388                             1388           
   AW        now       1095        292        275        287        241
   OH        pot        986                   986                      
   TH       thin        934        255        216        254        209
   OY        boy        440        120        102        120         98
   DH       then        421        100        132         99         90
   IA       peer        368                   368                      
   ZH    measure        289         80         73         80         56
   EA       pair        213                   213                      
   UA       poor        127                   127                      

ABATED shows some distinctions they make:

voxforge                                 AX B EY DX IX D
beep                                     ax b ey t ih d
cmu 0.7a                                 AH B EY T IH D
cmu 0.6d                                 AH0 B EY1 T IH0 D
epseak                                   AH B  EY T IH D