AsifSound vs. Spelling - American Dictionary
( aDaFSaND BaSaS SPaLaN - aNaLaKaN DaKSaNaLa )

ONLINE edition    from Oct.2005
("Sito sito pitchan, sito pitchan ..." --- this sound is a rain sound in Japanese June rainy season. Many things have a sound.
This dictionary is an online sound-based spelling dictionary[ alias a2spelling dictionary]. )

This is made from public "The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary", in which, I exchanged the input(=spelling) for the output(=pronunciation), and further, sprinkled the salad-dressing over them.

AsifSound is a grouping phonetic abstract symbol which consists of 12 characters.
From the statistics of below CMU pronouncing American spoken English dictionary, the maximum[NaKSaNaN] number of conflict elements in the same AsifSound is about 250 at most. And such case is very few. In general[DaNaLaL], the longer the string length of AsifSound, the less the number of its elements. Hence, the longer, the easier to find the word. But, HaLP has the only one element HELP, it's the exceptional[aKSaPSaNaL] interesting fact ( "Help" is a special[SPaSaL] important[aNPaTaNT] word, perhaps?! cf. FaLP has 2 members.).

Please do enjoy[aNDa] yourself with this index toy!! You may pronounce "Asif" as "azi:f" containing "zi"+long vowel sound. This dictionary is a freeware, but I don't allow using for a commercial[KaNaSaL] purpose, now.

To suggest the common/popular words or pronunciations to add, please tell me. Email: imai-imai@mri.biglobe.ne.jp.
I'd like to add those new words & your English name as a donor for memorial. Its voluntary[BaLaNTaLa] work is my pleasure[PLaDa].

[AsifSound definition] ----Using only ; A,B,D,F,G,H,K,L,N,P,S,T
A={ x ; x= vowels ,W , Y or all previous combination }, B={ b, v}, D={ d, dg(as bridge), th(as the), z, dz, su(as leisure)}, F={ f}, G={ g}, H={ h}, K={ k}, L={ l, r}, N={ m, n, ng (, nk)}, P={ p}, S={ s, sh, th}, T={ ch, t, th (, ts)} (,W={ w}, Y={ j})
				

CMU Pronouncing Dictionary statistics: <The census of AsifSound families> digit #sounds #words av w/s max w/s 1 2 216 108.0 215 2 28 2,223 79.4 226 3 184 8,524 46.3 252 4 788 18,270 23.2 248 5 2,780 26,584 9.6 163 6 6,703 25,063 3.7 81 7 9,498 18,745 2.0 31 8 8,735 12,927 1.5 16 9 6,029 7,755 1.3 12 10 3,681 4,377 1.2 8 11 2,116 2,430 1.1 6 12 1,154 1,304 1.1 5 13 563 617 1.1 6 14 239 254 1.1 4 15 109 116 1.1 3 ... Total 42,609 129,405 3.0 252
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