Introduction to symbolic phonetic representations

IBM Text-to-Speech technology uses symbolic phonetic representation (SPR) to represent the sounds of words. This topic briefly defines SPR and provides links to language-specific SPR topics.

SPR is a phonetic coding used to represent the pronunciation of words. An SPR represents the sounds of a word, how the sounds are divided into syllables, and which syllables receive stress.

• Symbolic phonetic representation forms (SPRs)
  This topic describes the form of a symbolic phonetic representation (SPR).
• Entering symbolic phonetic representations
  You can enter symbolic phonetic representations (SPRs) to replace the pronunciation of a word.
• U.S. English SPRs
  This topic contains tables that list the U.S. English symbolic phonetic representations (SPRs) by category.
• British English SPRs
  This topic contains tables that list the British English symbolic phonetic representations (SPRs) by category.
• German SPRs
  This topic contains tables that list the U.S. English symbolic phonetic representations (SPRs) by category.
• Canadian French SPRs
  This topic contains tables that list the Canadian French symbolic phonetic representations (SPRs) by category.
• Spanish SPRs
  This topic contains tables that list the symbolic phonetic representations (SPRs) for Mexican and Castilian Spanish, with differences between the two in notes as needed.