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	Virtual Reference Desk Abstract The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary The Carnegie Mellon University Pronouncing Dictionary is a machine-readable pronunciation dictionary for North American English that contains over 100,000 words and their transcriptions. This format is particularly useful for speech recognition and synthesis, as it has mappings from words to their pronunciations in the given phoneme set. The current phoneme set contains 39 phonemes, for which the vowels may carry lexical stress. Go to this Site NOW Subjects for this Item: ENGLISH LANGUAGE LINGUISTICS The Virtual Reference Desk http://www.virtualref.com/ Copyright © 1997 Christopher C. Brown Revised: 2/11/01