# US English (en-us)

| ARPABET | UNICODE      | IPA | EXAMPLE   |
| ------- | ------------ | --- | --------- |
| aa      | \u0251       | ɑ   |           |
| ae      | \u00e6       | æ   |           |
| ah0     | \u0259       | ə   | **a**bout |
| ah1     | \u028c       | ʌ   | m**u**d   |
| ao      | \u0254       | ɔ   |           |
| aw      | \u0061\u028a | aʊ  |           |
| ay      | a\u026a      | aɪ  |           |
| b       | b            | b   |           |
| ch      | t\u0283      | tʃ  |           |
| d       | d            | d   |           |
| dh      | \u00f0       | ð   |           |
| eh      | \u025b       | ɛ   |           |
| er      | \u025a       | ɚ   |           |
| ey      | e\u026a      | eɪ  |           |
| f       | f            | f   |           |
| g       | g            | g   |           |
| hh      | h            | h   |           |
| ih      | \u026a       | ɪ   |           |
| iy      | i            | i   |           |
| jh      | d\u0292      | dʒ  |           |
| k       | k            | k   |           |
| l       | l            | l   |           |
| m       | m            | m   |           |
| n       | n            | n   |           |
| ng      | \u014b       | ŋ   |           |
| ow      | o\u028a      | oʊ  |           |
| oy      | \u0254\u026a | ɔɪ  |           |
| p       | p            | p   |           |
| r       | r            | r   |           |
| s       | s            | s   |           |
| sh      | \u0283       | ʃ   |           |
| t       | t            | t   |           |
| th      | \u03b8       | θ   |           |
| uh      | \u028a       | ʊ   |           |
| uw      | u            | u   |           |
| v       | v            | v   |           |
| w       | w            | w   |           |
| y       | j            | j   |           |
| z       | z            | z   |           |
| zh      | \u0292       | ʒ   |           |

In cases of silence or noise, the API may also return the following phoneme codes:

| CODE | DESCRIPTION  |
| ---- | ------------ |
| sil  | Silence      |
| spn  | Spoken noise |