Australian English Phonemes

The unit of sound the recognition engine actually recognizes are phonemes. All phrase formats are ultimately translated into phonetic spelling for decoding. These phonetic spellings can be directly entered if surrounded by curly braces. See Using Phonetic Spellings and Adding Foreign Words for more information about working with phonemes. You may also be interested in Australian English Phonemes, UK English Phonemes, Mexican Spanish Phonemes, Colombian Spanish Phonemes, Canadian French Phonemes or Indian English Phonemes.

The Australian English phonetic alphabet used by the decoder:

Phoneme	Example #1	Phonetic Spelling #1	Example #2	Phonetic Spelling #2
Vowels
AA	barn	B AA N	after	AA F T AX
AE	bat	B AE T	fabric	F AE B R IH K
AH	cut	K AH T	other	AH DH AX
AO	ox	AO K S	grotto	G R AO T OW
AW	cow	K AW	house	HH AW S
AX	about	AX B AW T	dial	D AY AX L
AY	type	T AY P	life	L AY F
EH	check	CH EH K	mess	M EH S
EHR	hair	HH EHR	area	EHR R IY AX
ER	church	CH ER CH	bird	B ER D
EY	take	T EY K	hail	HH EY L
IH	little	L IH T AX L	getting	G EH T IH NG
IYR	hear	HH IYR	eerie	IYR R IY
IY	team	T IY M	keep	K IY P
OW	loan	L OW N	robe	R OW B
OY	oyster	OY S T AX	joy	JH OY
UH	book	B UH K	look	L UH K
UWR	tour	T UWR	gourmet	G UWR M EY
OH	daughter	D OH T AX	port	P OH T
UW	flew	F L UW	who	HH UW
Constants
B	web	W EH B	bear	B EHR
CH	chair	CH EY R	statue	S T AE CH UW
D	reed	R IY D	dark	D AA K
DH	they	DH EY	other	AH DH AX
F	four	F OH	graph	G R AE F
G	peg	P EH G	exam	AX G Z AE M
HH	halt	HH AA L T	Jose	HH OW Z EY
JH	cage	K EY JH	Jack	JH AE K
K	coin	K OY N	back	B AE K
L	late	L EY T	really	R IH L IY
M	lemon	L EH M AX N	mail	M EY L
N	night	N AY T	any	EH N IY
NG	ring	R IH NG	ankle	AA NG K AX L
P	pay	P EY	beep	B IY P
R	rest	R EH S T	prior	P R AY AX
S	sit	S IH T	bass	B AE S
SH	blush	B L AH SH	sure	SH OH
T	raft	R AE F T	taped	T EY P T
TH	three	TH R IY	youth	Y UW TH
V	van	V AE N	river	R IH V AX
W	swap	S W AO P	wing	W IH NG
Y	yes	Y EH S	year	Y IYR
Z	arms	AA M Z	blaze	B L EY Z
ZH	Asian	EY ZH AX N	genre	ZH AO N R AX