Romanian Phonemes

The tables below list the full set of phonemes supported by Capacity Private Cloud Neural and LLM TTS for Romanian (ro-RO). Each phoneme is shown with its Unicode code point(s), decimal value(s), IPA symbol, X-SAMPA representation, viseme, and an example word. Consonants and vowels are listed separately.

Phonemes can be supplied in SSML using the <phoneme> element (with alphabet="ipa" or alphabet="x-sampa") to override the default pronunciation of a word. For the complete list of Neural TTS voices, see Neural TTS Languages.

These phonemes apply to the following Romanian Neural TTS voice:

Daria

Supplementary English phonemes. In addition to the native Romanian inventory, this phoneme set includes a number of English phonemes (marked with ^* and grouped at the end of each table). These are provided so that English words and loanwords that appear within Romanian text are pronounced correctly.

Consonants

Unicode	Decimal	IPA	X-SAMPA	Viseme	Example
U+0062	98	b	b	DIS_1	bar
U+006B	107	k	k	DIS_9	cal
U+0074 U+0283	116 643	tʃ	tS	DIS_8	ceas
U+0064	100	d	d	DIS_7	ador
U+0066	102	f	f	DIS_4	efect
U+0261	609	ɡ	g	DIS_9	gât
U+0064 U+0292	100 658	dʒ	dZ	DIS_8	geam
U+0068	104	h	h	DIS_9	ham
U+0069 U+006A	105 106	ij	ij	DIS_10	câini
U+006A	106	j	j	DIS_10	doi
U+0292	658	ʒ	Z	DIS_8	joi
U+006C	108	l	l	DIS_6	luna
U+006D	109	m	m	DIS_1	masă
U+006E	110	n	n	DIS_7	nas
U+0070	112	p	p	DIS_1	apt
U+0072	114	r	r	DIS_3	rană
U+0073	115	s	s	DIS_7	sare
U+0283	643	ʃ	S	DIS_8	şa
U+0074	116	t	t	DIS_7	tata
U+02A6	678	ʦ	ts	DIS_7	soţ
U+0077	119	w	w	DIS_2	sau
U+0076	118	v	v	DIS_4	vot
U+007A	122	z	z	DIS_7	zi
U+00F0	240	ð	D	DIS_5	then ^*
U+014B	331	ŋ	N	DIS_9	song ^*
U+0279	633	ɹ	r\	DIS_3	ray ^*
U+03B8	952	θ	T	DIS_5	thin ^*

Vowels

Unicode	Decimal	IPA	X-SAMPA	Viseme	Example
U+0061	97	a	a	DIS_13	cap
U+0259	601	ə	@	DIS_9	măr
U+0268	616	ɨ	1	DIS_10	fân
U+025B	603	ɛ	E	DIS_11	fel
U+025B U+0259	603 601	ɛə	E@	DIS_11	deasă
U+0069	105	i	i	DIS_10	vin
U+006F U+031E	111 798	o̞	o_o	DIS_13	loc
U+0254 U+0259	596 601	ɔə	O@	DIS_13	floare
U+0075	117	u	u	DIS_3	muncă
U+025C	604	ɜ	3	DIS_9	nurse ^*
U+0251	593	ɑ	A	DIS_13	palm ^*
U+026A	618	ɪ	I	DIS_10	kit ^*
U+026A U+0259	618 601	ɪə	I@	DIS_10	near ^*
U+0254	596	ɔ	O	DIS_13	thought ^*
U+028A	650	ʊ	U	DIS_11	foot ^*
U+028A U+0259	650 601	ʊə	U@	DIS_11	cure ^*
U+028C	652	ʌ	V	DIS_13	strut ^*

^* Supplementary English phoneme — included so that English words and loanwords embedded in Romanian text render with correct pronunciation.

Viseme values use the standard Capacity viseme set (for lip-sync and avatar animation). X-SAMPA is the ASCII-encoded equivalent of the IPA symbol.

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