CMU Pronouncing Dictionary

This annotator tags words with their pronunciations according to the CMU Pronouncing dictionary, a machine-readable pronunciation dictionary for North American English that contains over 125,000 words and their transcriptions.

Configuration parameters are encoded as a URL query string, e.g.
tokenLayerId=orthography&pronunciationLayerId=phonemes&encoding=DISC

Parameters are:

tokenLayerId

Input layer from which words come.

transcriptLanguageLayerId

Transcript attribute for overall language, so the annotator can avoid tagging non-English transcripts.

phraseLanguageLayerId

Layer for annotating phrases in a different language, so the annotator can avoid tagging non-English phrases.

pronunciationLayerId

Output layer to which pronunciations are added.

encoding

Which encoding system should be used for the resulting annotation labels. Possible values are:

• "CMU" - CMU ARPAbet encoding, e.g. "T R AE2 N S K R IH1 P SH AH0 N"
• "DISC" - CELEX DISC encoding, e.g. "tr{nskrIpS@n"

firstVariantOnly

If there are multiple entries for the token, use only the first one. Value should be "on" for true, and the parameter should be absent to indicate false.