Scottish Gaelic Phonemes

The tables below list the full set of phonemes supported by Capacity Private Cloud Neural and LLM TTS for Gaelic (Scotland) (gd-GB). 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 Gaelic (Scotland) Neural TTS voice:

Ceitidh

Consonants

Unicode	Decimal	IPA	X-SAMPA	Viseme	Example
U+0062	98	b	b	DIS_1	beag
U+0062 U+006A	98 106	bj	bj	DIS_1	beò
U+00E7	231	ç	C	DIS_9	chì
U+0064	100	d	d	DIS_7	dùn
U+0064 U+02B2	100 690	dʲ	d_j	DIS_7	deò
U+0066	102	f	f	DIS_4	falbh
U+0066 U+006A	102 106	fj	fj	DIS_4	pheann
U+0067	103	g	g	DIS_9	gaoth
U+0263	611	ɣ	G	DIS_9	ghaoth
U+0067 U+02B2	103 690	gʲ	g_j	DIS_9	geas
U+0068	104	h	h	DIS_9	tha
U+0068 U+006A	104 106	hj	hj	DIS_9	sheall
U+006A	106	j	j	DIS_10	eala
U+029D	669	ʝ	j\	DIS_10	gheas
U+006B	107	k	k	DIS_9	cas
U+006B U+02B2	107 690	kʲ	k_j	DIS_9	ceò
U+006C	108	l	l	DIS_6	baile
U+028E	654	ʎ	L	DIS_10	buill
U+006C U+02E0	108 736	lˠ	l_G	DIS_6	ball
U+006D	109	m	m	DIS_1	mòr
U+006D U+02B2	109 690	mʲ	m_j	DIS_1	meall
U+006E	110	n	n	DIS_7	bean
U+014B	331	ŋ	N	DIS_9	long
U+014B U+02B2	331 690	ŋʲ	N_j	DIS_9	cuing
U+006E U+02B2	110 690	nʲ	n_j	DIS_7	pinn
U+006E U+02D0	110 720	nː	n:	DIS_7	peann
U+0070	112	p	p	DIS_1	pac
U+027E	638	ɾ	4	DIS_7	cor
U+027E U+02B2	638 690	ɾʲ	4_j	DIS_7	iris
U+0072	114	r	r	DIS_3	corr
U+0073	115	s	s	DIS_7	bus
U+0283	643	ʃ	S	DIS_8	iris
U+0074	116	t	t	DIS_7	taic
U+0074 U+02B2	116 690	tʲ	t_j	DIS_7	teth
U+0076	118	v	v	DIS_4	bhò
U+0076 U+02B2	118 690	vʲ	v_j	DIS_4	mheall
U+0078	120	x	x	DIS_9	loch

Vowels

Unicode	Decimal	IPA	X-SAMPA	Viseme	Example
U+0259	601	ə	@	DIS_9	agus
U+0264	612	ɤ	7	DIS_9	goid
U+0264 U+02D0	612 720	ɤː	7:	DIS_9	adhbrann
U+0264 U+0069	612 105	ɤi	7i	DIS_12	goill
U+0061	97	a	a	DIS_13	aran
U+0061 U+02D0	97 720	aː	a:	DIS_13	bà
U+0061 U+0069	97 105	ai	ai	DIS_13	cainnt
U+0061 U+0075	97 117	au	au	DIS_13	call
U+025B	603	ɛ	E	DIS_11	ear
U+025B U+02D0	603 720	ɛː	E:	DIS_11	sèimh
U+0065 U+02D0	101 720	eː	e:	DIS_11	beum
U+0065 U+0069	101 105	ei	ei	DIS_11	beinn
U+0065	101	e	e	DIS_11	beag
U+026A	618	ɪ	I	DIS_10	iris
U+0069 U+0259	105 601	iə	i@	DIS_10	cian
U+0069 U+0061	105 97	ia	ia	DIS_10	pian
U+0069	105	i	i	DIS_10	sìth
U+0254	596	ɔ	O	DIS_13	cor
U+0254 U+02D0	596 720	ɔː	O:	DIS_13	corr
U+006F	111	o	o	DIS_12	bò
U+0254 U+0075	596 117	ɔu	Ou	DIS_13	coll
U+006F U+02D0	111 720	oː	o:	DIS_13	bog
U+0075	117	u	u	DIS_3	bus
U+0075 U+0259	117 601	uə	u@	DIS_3	uan
U+0075 U+02D0	117 720	uː	u:	DIS_3	cum
U+026F	623	ɯ	M	DIS_3	uinnean
U+026F U+0069	623 105	ɯi	Mi	DIS_3	tuill
U+026F U+02D0	623 720	ɯː	M:	DIS_3	gaoth

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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