English (Australian) symbols (obsolete) 

The service supported the following symbols for the obsolete neural voices for Australian English. These voices were replaced with alternative expressive neural voices and removed from the service on 31 March 2023. The symbols are available to help users migrate from the obsolete Australian English neural voices to the new Australian English expressive neural voices.



  Monophthongs 



Table 1. Monophthongs (Australian English)

 IPA symbol         IPA Unicode         Example words 

     ɒ                 0252                not        
     æ                 00E6                cat        
 e<br><br>ɛ  0065<br><br>Not available     pet        
     I                 026A               city        
     i                 0069               happy       
     ʊ                 028A                put        
     u                 0075             influenza     
     ʌ                 028C                run        
     ə                 0259               about       







  Diphthongs 



Table 2. Diphthongs (Australian English)

  IPA symbol             IPA Unicode            Example words 

      aI                 0061+026A                rise        
      eI                 0065+026A                raise       
      ɔI                 0254+026A                noise       
      aʊ                 0061+028A                rouse       
      əʊ                 0259+028A                nose        
 eə<br><br>ɛə  0065+0259<br><br>Not available    stairs       
      Iə                 026A+0259                fear        
      ʊə                 028A+0259                cure        







  Long vowels 



Table 3. Long vowels (Australian English)

 IPA symbol  IPA Unicode  Example words 

     α:      0251+02D0     father       
     i:      0069+02D0       see        
     ɔ:      0254+02D0       law        
     u:      0075+02D0      soon        
     ɜ:      025C+02D0      bird        







  Consonants 



Table 4. Consonants (Australian English)

     IPA symbol                        IPA Unicode                    Example words 

          p                                0070                          pen        
          b                                0062                          but        
          t                                0074                          two        
          d                                0064                          do         
         tʃ                                02A7                         chair       
         dʒ                                02A4                          joy        
          k                                006B                          cat        
          g                                0067                          get        
          f                                0066                         fool        
          v                                0076                         voice       
          θ                                03B8                         think       
          ð                                00F0                         this        
          s                                0073                          see        
          z                                007A                          zoo        
          ʃ                                0283                          she        
          ʒ                                0292                       pleasure      
          h                                0068                          ham        
          x                           Not available                     loch        
          ɬ                           Not available                   Llantilio     
          m                                006D                          man        
         m̩                           Not available                    Wilsham      
          n                                006E                          no         
         n̩                           Not available                    morten       
          ŋ                                014B                         ring        
          l                                006C                         left        
         l̩                           Not available                    turtle       
 ɹ<br><br>ɻ<br><br>r  0279<br><br>Not available<br><br>Not available    wrong       
          j                                006A                          yes        
          w                                0077                          we