1. CS626-449: Speech, NLP and the Web/Topics in AI Pushpak Bhattacharyya CSE Dept., IIT Bombay Lecture-25: Vowels cntd and a “grand” assignment

2. Phonteic Symbols and IPA notation

3. IPA: vowels

4. Pushpak Bhattacharyya Vowels (1/2)

5. Pushpak Bhattacharyya Vowels (2/2)

6. Pushpak Bhattacharyya Some examples iy: bead [b] [iy] [d] (high front) ey: clay [k][l][ey] (mid front) uw: crude [k][r][uw][d] (high back rounded) ow: boat [b][ow][t] (mid back rounded with w-glide) oy: boy [b][oy] (mid back rounded with y-glide) aw: cow [k][aw] (low back with w-glide) ay: my [m][ay] (high back with y-glide)

7. Pushpak Bhattacharyya A “grand” assignment The Carnegie Mellon University Pronouncing Dictionary machine-readable pronunciation dictionary for North American English that contains over 125,000 words and their transcriptions. The current phoneme set contains 39 phonemes

8. Pushpak Bhattacharyya A “grand” assignment cntd Phoneme Example Translation ------- ------- ----------- AA odd AA D AE at AE T AH hut HH AH T AO ought AO T AW cow K AW AY hide HH AY D B be B IY

9. Pushpak Bhattacharyya A “grand” assignment cntd Phoneme Example Translation ------- ------- ----------- CH cheese CH IY Z D dee D IY DH thee DH IY EH Ed EH D ER hurt HH ER T EY ate EY T F fee F IY G green G R IY N HH he HH IY IH it IH T IY eat IY T JH gee JH IY