<s>
The	O
CMU	B-General_Concept
Pronouncing	I-General_Concept
Dictionary	I-General_Concept
(	O
also	O
known	O
as	O
CMUdict	B-General_Concept
)	O
is	O
an	O
open-source	B-Application
pronouncing	O
dictionary	B-Operating_System
originally	O
created	O
by	O
the	O
Speech	O
Group	O
at	O
Carnegie	O
Mellon	O
University	O
(	O
CMU	O
)	O
for	O
use	O
in	O
speech	B-Application
recognition	I-Application
research	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
CMUdict	B-General_Concept
provides	O
a	O
mapping	O
orthographic/phonetic	O
for	O
English	O
words	O
in	O
their	O
North	O
American	O
pronunciations	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
commonly	O
used	O
to	O
generate	O
representations	O
for	O
speech	B-Application
recognition	I-Application
(	O
ASR	O
)	O
,	O
e.g.	O
</s>
<s>
the	O
CMU	B-General_Concept
Sphinx	I-General_Concept
system	O
,	O
and	O
speech	B-Application
synthesis	I-Application
(	O
TTS	O
)	O
,	O
e.g.	O
</s>
<s>
the	O
Festival	B-Language
system	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
CMUdict	B-General_Concept
can	O
be	O
used	O
as	O
a	O
training	O
corpus	O
for	O
building	O
statistical	O
grapheme-to-phoneme	O
(	O
g2p	O
)	O
models	O
that	O
will	O
generate	O
pronunciations	O
for	O
words	O
not	O
yet	O
included	O
in	O
the	O
dictionary	B-Operating_System
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
derived	O
format	O
,	O
directly	O
suitable	O
for	O
speech	B-Application
recognition	I-Application
engines	O
is	O
also	O
available	O
as	O
part	O
of	O
the	O
distribution	O
;	O
this	O
format	O
collapses	O
stress	O
distinctions	O
(	O
typically	O
not	O
used	O
in	O
ASR	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
following	O
is	O
a	O
table	O
of	O
phonemes	O
used	O
by	O
CMU	B-General_Concept
Pronouncing	I-General_Concept
Dictionary	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Unifon	O
converter	O
is	O
based	O
on	O
the	O
CMU	B-General_Concept
Pronouncing	I-General_Concept
Dictionary	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Natural	B-General_Concept
Language	I-General_Concept
Toolkit	I-General_Concept
contains	O
an	O
interface	O
to	O
the	O
CMU	B-General_Concept
Pronouncing	I-General_Concept
Dictionary	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Carnegie	O
Mellon	O
Logios	O
tool	O
incorporates	O
the	O
CMU	B-General_Concept
Pronouncing	I-General_Concept
Dictionary	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
,	O
a	O
pronunciation	O
dictionary	B-Operating_System
of	O
American	O
English	O
,	O
uses	O
the	O
CMU	B-General_Concept
Pronouncing	I-General_Concept
Dictionary	I-General_Concept
as	O
its	O
data	O
source	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
dictionary	B-Operating_System
also	O
supports	O
searching	O
by	O
pronunciation	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Some	O
singing	O
voice	B-Application
synthesizer	I-Application
software	O
like	O
CeVIO	B-Application
Creative	I-Application
Studio	I-Application
and	O
Synthesizer	O
V	O
uses	O
modified	O
version	O
of	O
CMU	B-General_Concept
Pronouncing	I-General_Concept
Dictionary	I-General_Concept
for	O
synthesizing	O
English	O
singing	O
voices	O
.	O
</s>
