Swedish Phonemes

The tables below list the full set of phonemes supported by Capacity Private Cloud Neural and LLM TTS for Swedish (sv-SE). 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 Swedish Neural TTS voices:

Anders
Ylva

Supplementary English phonemes. In addition to the native Swedish 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 Swedish text are pronounced correctly.

Consonants

Unicode	Decimal	IPA	X-SAMPA	Viseme	Example
U+0070	112	p	p	DIS_1	pappa
U+0062	98	b	b	DIS_1	bada
U+0074	116	t	t	DIS_7	tå
U+0064	100	d	d	DIS_7	dö
U+006B	107	k	k	DIS_9	ko
U+0067	103	g	g	DIS_9	gå
U+0066	102	f	f	DIS_4	föra
U+0076	118	v	v	DIS_4	värde
U+0073	115	s	s	DIS_7	sko
U+0267	615	ɧ	x\	DIS_9	sjunga
U+0068	104	h	h	DIS_9	hej
U+0255	597	ɕ	s\	DIS_8	kyssa
U+006D	109	m	m	DIS_1	mun
U+006E	110	n	n	DIS_7	nyss
U+014B	331	ŋ	N	DIS_9	tung
U+0072	114	r	r	DIS_3	ros
U+006C	108	l	l	DIS_6	led
U+006A	106	j	j	DIS_10	ja
U+0256	598	ɖ	d`	DIS_3	hörda
U+0282	642	ʂ	s`	DIS_8	korsa
U+0273	627	ɳ	n`	DIS_3	hjärna
U+0288	648	ʈ	t`	DIS_7	portad
U+026D	621	ɭ	l`	DIS_3	farlig
U+0078	120	x	x	DIS_9	nach
U+0281	641	ʁ	R	DIS_3	Rostock
U+0074 U+0283	116 643	tʃ	tS	DIS_8	each ^*
U+00F0	240	ð	D	DIS_5	then ^*
U+03B8	952	θ	T	DIS_5	thing ^*
U+0064 U+0292	100 658	dʒ	dZ	DIS_8	edge ^*
U+0077	119	w	w	DIS_2	way ^*
U+0279	633	ɹ	r\	DIS_3	row ^*
U+007A	122	z	z	DIS_7	zebra ^*

Vowels

Unicode	Decimal	IPA	X-SAMPA	Viseme	Example
U+0069 U+02D0	105 720	iː	i:	DIS_10	fina
U+0065 U+02D0	101 720	eː	e:	DIS_11	fena
U+025B U+02D0	603 720	ɛː	E:	DIS_11	län
U+0079 U+02D0	121 720	yː	y:	DIS_3	tryne
U+0289 U+02D0	649 720	ʉː	}:	DIS_3	sune
U+00F8 U+02D0	248 720	øː	2:	DIS_3	föna
U+0075 U+02D0	117 720	uː	u:	DIS_3	bona
U+006F U+02D0	111 720	oː	o:	DIS_13	fåna
U+0251 U+02D0	593 720	ɑː	A:	DIS_9	fana
U+026A	618	ɪ	I	DIS_10	finna
U+0065	101	e	e	DIS_11	penna
U+028F	655	ʏ	Y	DIS_3	lynne
U+0275	629	ɵ	8	DIS_12	tunna
U+00F8	248	ø	2	DIS_3	tömma
U+028A	650	ʊ	U	DIS_11	tomma
U+0254	596	ɔ	O	DIS_13	komma
U+0061	97	a	a	DIS_13	fann
U+00E6 U+02D0	230 720	æː	{:	DIS_9	värna
U+0153 U+02D0	339 720	œː	9:	DIS_12	förd
U+00E6	230	æ	{	DIS_9	hjärta
U+0153	339	œ	9	DIS_12	mörk
U+0259	601	ə	@	DIS_9	handen
U+025B U+028A	603 650	ɛʊ	EU	DIS_11	europa
U+0061 U+028A	97 650	aʊ	aU	DIS_9	aula
U+0251 U+0303	593 771	ɑ̃	A~	DIS_13	pan
U+025B U+0303	603 771	ɛ̃	E~	DIS_11	pain
U+0254 U+0303	596 771	ɔ̃	O~	DIS_13	avion
U+0153 U+0303	339 771	œ̃	9~	DIS_13	brun
U+0061 U+02D0	97 720	aː	a:	DIS_13	haben
U+0259 U+028A	601 650	əʊ	@U	DIS_9	goat ^*
U+026A U+0259	618 601	ɪə	I@	DIS_10	peer ^*
U+025B U+0259	603 601	ɛə	E@	DIS_11	where ^*
U+028A U+0259	650 601	ʊə	U@	DIS_11	pure ^*
U+025C	604	ɜ	3	DIS_9	girl ^*
U+0075	117	u	u	DIS_3	roof ^*

^* Supplementary English phoneme — included so that English words and loanwords embedded in Swedish 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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