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This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Tagalog on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Tagalog in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
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Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages. Sometimes a well-known namesake with the same spelling has a markedly different pronunciation. These are known as heterophonic names or heterophones (unlike heterographs , which are written differently but pronounced the same).
Most American, Canadian, and Australian speakers of English would pronounce the /t/ in the word little as a tap and the initial /l/ as a dark L (often represented as [ɫ]), but speakers in southern England pronounce the /t/ as (a glottal stop; see t-glottalization) and the second /l/ as a vowel resembling (L-vocalization).
The city of Pittsburgh shows an especially advanced subset of Western Pennsylvania English, additionally characterized by a sound change that is unique in North America: the monophthongization of /aʊ/ to [a]. This is the source of the stereotypical Pittsburgh pronunciation of downtown as "dahntahn".
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 25 January 2025. Artificial production of human speech Automatic announcement A synthetic voice announcing an arriving train in Sweden. Problems playing this file? See media help. Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech. A computer system used for this purpose is called a speech ...
The pronunciation is encoded using a modified form of the ARPABET system, with the addition of stress marks on vowels of levels 0, 1, and 2. A line-initial ;;; token indicates a comment. A derived format, directly suitable for speech recognition engines is also available as part of the distribution; this format collapses stress distinctions ...
The spelling of English continues to evolve. Many loanwords come from languages where the pronunciation of vowels corresponds to the way they were pronounced in Old English, which is similar to the Italian or Spanish pronunciation of the vowels, and is the value the vowel symbols a, e, i, o, u have in the International Phonetic Alphabet.