In most cases different languages inherit the same basic set of consonants. They can add to these or modify them as needed.
The phoneme mnemonics are based on the scheme by Kirshenbaum which represents International Phonetic Alphabet symbols using ascii characters. See: www.kirshenbaum.net/IPA/ascii-ipa.pdf.
Phoneme mnemonics can be used directly in the text input to espeak. They are enclosed within double square brackets. Spaces are used to separate words, and all stressed syllables must be marked explicitly. eg:
[[D,Is Iz sVm f@n'EtIk t'Ekst 'InpUt]]
|red (Omitted if not immediately followed by a vowel).|
|Some Additional Consonants|
|German ich||German buch|
|Italian gli||Spanish ñ|
In rhotic accents, such as General American, the phonemes
[3:], [A@], [e@], [i@], [O@], [U@] include the "r" sound.
|better||rhotic schwa. In British English this is the same as |
|the||Used only for "the".|
|to||Used only for "to".|
|bath||This is |
|about||This may be |
|happy||An unstressed "i" sound at the end of a word.|
|German eh, French é|
|German oo, French o|
|German ü, French u|
|German ö, French oe|
[:] can be used to lengthen a vowel, eg