Irish Phonemes

The tables below list the full set of phonemes supported by Capacity Private Cloud Neural and LLM TTS for Irish (ga-IE). 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 Irish Neural TTS voice:

Peig

Consonants

Unicode	Decimal	IPA	X-SAMPA	Viseme	Example
U+0062	98	b	b	DIS_1	barr
U+0062 U+02B2	98 690	bʲ	b_j	DIS_1	beo
U+00E7	231	ç	C	DIS_9	cluiche
U+0064	100	d	d	DIS_7	ard
U+0064 U+02B2	100 690	dʲ	d_j	DIS_7	deacair
U+0066	102	f	f	DIS_4	fad
U+0066 U+02B2	102 690	fʲ	f_j	DIS_4	fearr
U+0067	103	g	g	DIS_9	ag
U+0263	611	ɣ	G	DIS_9	ghasúr
U+0067 U+02B2	103 690	gʲ	g_j	DIS_9	gearr
U+0068	104	h	h	DIS_9	hé
U+0068 U+006A	104 106	hj	hj	DIS_9	oíche
U+006A	106	j	j	DIS_10	eorpach
U+006B	107	k	k	DIS_9	cad
U+006B U+02B2	107 690	kʲ	k_j	DIS_9	ceart
U+006C	108	l	l	DIS_6	labhair
U+006C U+02B2	108 690	lʲ	l_j	DIS_6	litir
U+006D	109	m	m	DIS_1	mall
U+006D U+02B2	109 690	mʲ	m_j	DIS_1	meas
U+006E	110	n	n	DIS_7	nach
U+014B	331	ŋ	N	DIS_9	rang
U+014B U+02B2	331 690	ŋʲ	N_j	DIS_9	cuing
U+006E U+02B2	110 690	nʲ	n_j	DIS_7	neart
U+0070	112	p	p	DIS_1	pobal
U+0070 U+02B2	112 690	pʲ	p_j	DIS_1	píosa
U+027E	638	ɾ	4	DIS_7	ar
U+027E U+02B2	638 690	ɾʲ	4_j	DIS_7	rinne
U+0073	115	s	s	DIS_7	sa
U+0283	643	ʃ	S	DIS_8	seans
U+0074	116	t	t	DIS_7	tae
U+0074 U+02B2	116 690	tʲ	t_j	DIS_7	teanga
U+03B2	946	β	B	DIS_4	dubh
U+03B2 U+02B2	946 690	βʲ	B_j	DIS_4	bheo
U+0077	119	w	w	DIS_2	mháthair
U+0078	120	x	x	DIS_9	ach
U+007A	122	z	z	DIS_7	zú

Vowels

Unicode	Decimal	IPA	X-SAMPA	Viseme	Example
U+0259	601	ə	@	DIS_9	agus
U+0061	97	a	a	DIS_13	againn
U+0061 U+02D0	97 720	aː	a:	DIS_13	amhrán
U+0061 U+0069	97 105	ai	ai	DIS_13	aimsir
U+0061 U+0075	97 117	au	au	DIS_13	ceann
U+025B	603	ɛ	E	DIS_11	ceist
U+0069 U+02D0	105 720	iː	i:	DIS_10	cruinn
U+0065 U+02D0	101 720	eː	e:	DIS_11	cé
U+026A	618	ɪ	I	DIS_10	idir
U+0069 U+0259	105 601	iə	i@	DIS_10	bliain
U+0254	596	ɔ	O	DIS_13	anocht
U+006F U+02D0	111 720	oː	o:	DIS_13	ceol
U+0075 U+0259	117 601	uə	u@	DIS_3	fuar
U+028A	650	ʊ	U	DIS_11	bun
U+0075 U+02D0	117 720	uː	u:	DIS_3	tú

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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