
Phonemes Used by READER'S Speech Synthesizer

Phonetic   as   in       Phonetic   as   in        Phonetic   as  in
------------------       ------------------        ------------------
a          o   cot       b          b    bib       v          v   valve

@          a   cat       d          d    did       z          z   zoo

^          u   cut       D          th   this      Z          s   vision

%          a   about     X          tt   butter    TS         ch  chin

A          ow  cow       f          f    fee       dZ         g   gin

Y          i   bite      g          g    gag       l          l   light

E          e   bet       h          h    he        L          l   tile

R          ir  bird      K          c    curse     m          m   me

&          r   bear      k          k    skirt
 
e          a   bake                                n          n   no

I          i   bit       P          p    pip       N          ng  song

!          e   chicken   p          p    speak     r          r   rock

i          ee  beet      s          s    sin       w          w   we

o          oa  boat      S          sh   shin      y          y   you

O          oy  boy       T          t    tin

U          oo  book      H          th   thin

u          oo  boot      t          t    stick

+          y   happy
        
These symbols are contained within a phonetic string representation of a
text string. The phonetic string must begin with <<~ and end with >>

Imbedded Commands (must be preceeded by a '\' within the phonetic string).

\S0..9   - Speed of delivery
\V0..9   - Volume codes
\0..195H - Pitch codes (used between phonemes two adjacent are OK)
           To change pitch within a phoneme (say slide down in pitch)
           put first pitch code in front of the phoneme and the other one
           behind it. ie: \116 YYY \84
           To raise or lower the overall speaking pitch, raise or lower all
           pitch codes, a factor of 10 equals a pitch change of 1. There used
           to be an offset setting to handle this, but it seems to be gone
           with this new speech engine.
\/       - Raise pitch of next vowel
\\       - Lower pitch of next vowel
\'       - Primary stress (rise in pitch increased length)
\"       - Secondary stress (slight rise in pitch slight increase in length)
\-       - Unstressed (fall in pitch reduced length)
\^       - word separator
\D1..500M - Delay codes (for pauses)
         

When a word is double clicked in the trainer word list, a phonetic
representation of the word will be shown on the Sounds-Like line of the
trainer.  You can modify this phonetic string to fine-tune the
way PAM says the word. Use the above guides when modifying phonetics.
 Then click on the Save button.

