Phone Set for Spanish (United States)

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