Indian 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 or Canadian French Phonemes.

The Indian English phonetic alphabet used by the decoder:

Phoneme	Example #1	Phonetic Spelling #1	Example #2	Phonetic Spelling #2
Vowels
AA	barn	B AA R N	after	AA F T AH R
AE	swap	S V AE P	bear	B AE R
AH	cut	K AH T	other	AH DH HH AH R
AO	oyster	AO Y S T AH R	joy	JH AO Y
AW	cow	K AW	house	HH AW Z
AY	type	T AY P	life	L AY F
EH	check	CH EH K	mess	M EH S
ER	church	CH ER CH	bird	B ER D
EY	take	T EY K	waste	V EY S T
IH	little	L IH T T IH L	intricate	IH N T R IY K EY T
IY	team	T IY M	keep	K IY P
OW	loan	L OW N	robe	R OW B
OY	deployment	D EH P L OY M EH N T	exploit	EH K S P L OY T
UH	book	B UH K	look	L UH K
UW	flew	F L Y UW	who	HH UW
Constants
B	web	V EH B	bear	B AE R
CH	chair	CH EY R	match	M AE CH
D	reed	R IY D	dark	D AA R K
DH	they	DH EY	other	AA DH HH AH R
F	four	F OW R	graph	G R AA F
G	peg	P EH G	grotto	G R OW T OW
HH	halt	HH AA L T	hero	HH IY R OW
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 AH L IY
M	lemon	L EY M AH N	mail	M EH Y L
N	night	N AY T	any	EH N IY
NG	ring	R IH NG G	ankle	AA NG K AH L
P	pay	P EY	beep	B IY P
R	rest	R EH S T	prior	P R AY AH R
S	sit	S IH T	bass	B AE S
SH	blush	B L AH SH	sure	SH UW R
T	raft	R AE F T	execute	IY K S EY K UW T
TH	three	TH HH R IY	youth	Y UW TH HH
V	van	V AE N	river	R IH V AH R
Y	yes	Y EH S	yearn	Y ER N
Z	rose	R OW Z	blaze	B L EY Z
ZH	Casual	K AE ZH UH AH L	decision	D EH S IY ZH AH N