Phoneme Table for French (Canada)

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The following tables show the phonemes and prosodic symbols used by the speech recognition engine for French (Canada). These are a subset of the Universal Phone Set (UPS).

Phoneme and prosodic symbol labels are case-sensitive. When used in transcriptions, phonemes must be space-delimited.

Note

Character groups that comprise multi-symbol UPS Label forms also must be space-delimited.

Vowels

UPS Label	Example Word	UPS Transcription of Example Word
A	patte	P A T
A W	g??teau	G A W T O
A J	p??re	P A J RH
AA	p??te	P AA T
AN	vent	V AN
AN W	??change	E SH AN W ZH
AO	comme	K AO M
AO J	Choice	CH AO J S
AX	justement	ZH YH S T AX M ON
E	caf??	K A F E
E J	Blake	B L E J K
EH	seize ; t??te	S EH Z ; T EH T
EN	vin	V EN
EN J	quinze	K EN J Z
EU	deux	D EU
EU WJ	chercheuse	SH EH RH SH EU WJ Z
I	si	S I
IH	site	S IH T
O	gros	G RH O
O W	auge	O W ZH
OE	oeuf	OE F
OE WJ	fleur	F L OE WJ RH
OEN	brun	B RH OEN
OEN WJ	Munroe	M OEN WJ RH O
ON	bon	B O nas
ON W	onze	ON W Z
U	vous	V U
UH	coupe	K UH P
W	coin	K W EN
Y	vue	V Y
YH	jupe	ZH YH P

Consonants

UPS Label	Example Word	UPS Transcription of Example Word
B	bon	B ON
CH	chum	CH AO M
D	dans	D AN
DH	The	DH AX
DZ	dire	DZ I RH
F	femme	F A M
G	grand	G RH ON
J	briller	B RH I J E
JH	jeans	JH I N Z
K	quand	K ON
L	long	L ON
M	mon	M ON
N	non	N ON
N _^	mon_ami	M ON N _^ A M I
NG	camping	K A M P IH NG
NJ	oignon	AO NJ ON
P	pont	P ON
RH	gris ; rond	G RH I ; RH ON
S	san	S AN
SH	champ	SH AN
T	temps	T ON
T _^	petit enfant	P AX TS I T _^ AN F AN
TH	Theo	TH I O
TS	petite	P AX TS IH T
V	vent	V ON
WJ	huit	WJ I T
Z	zone	Z O N
Z _^	les_enfants	L EH Z _^ AN F AN
ZH	gens	ZH AN

Prosody

UPS Label	Description	Example Word	UPS Transcription of Example Word
S1	primary stress	non-fumeur	S1 N O nas _& F Y . S1 M OE RH
S2	secondary stress
.	syllable break	caf??	K A . F E
_^	Linking (absence of a break)
_!	intonation - exclamation
_&	intonation - continue	non-fumeur	S1 N O nas _& F Y . S1 M OE RH
_,	intonation - incompletion rise
_.	intonation ??? fall
_?	intonation - question rise
_s	silence

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