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Phone Set for Spanish (United States)

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The following tables show the phonemes and special characters used by the text-to-speech (TTS) engine for Spanish (United States), which is a subset of the SAPI Universal Phone Set.

Vowels

UPS Example SAPI ID
I pico 0x0069
U duro 0x0075
E pero 0x0065
O toro 0x006F
A valle 0x0061

Consonants

UPS Example SAPI ID
P padre 0x0070
B barista / vino 0x0062
BH cabo 0x03B2
M mismo 0x006D
F fcil 0x0066
T tomo 0x0074
D donde 0x0064
DH nada 0x00F0
NJ ao 0x0272
N nunca 0x006E
S sala / cinco 0x0073
L lejos 0x006C
LH caballo 0x026E
J rey / pie 0x006A
JJ hielo / llamar 0x006A 0x0361 0x006A
W deuda / cuenta 0x0077
K casa 0x006B
G gato 0x0067
GH luego 0x0263
X mujer 0x0078
RA puro 0x0279
RR torre / rojo 0x0072
CH mucho 0x0074 0x0361 0x0283
Z mismo 0x007A

Prosody

UPS Example SAPI ID
S1 primary stress 0x02C8
S2 secondary stress 0x02CC
. syllable boundary 0x002E
_s Silence 0x0004
_& Word boundary 0x0002
_. Sentence terminator (period) 0x2198
_, Sentence terminator (comma) 0x0003
_! Sentence terminator (exclamation mark) 0x0001
_? Sentence terminator (question mark) 0x2197

See Also

ssml:phoneme Element | token Element