When translating vowel sounds, you should sound the words out carefully, and try to match the vowel sounds to the examples in the phoneme chart. DonΓÇÖt rely too much on the actual spelling, as it often has little relation to the actual sound
(for instance, you will find the vowel sound in the word ΓÇ£oneΓÇ¥ in the ΓÇÿuΓÇÖ column of the chart, not the ΓÇÿoΓÇÖ column).
Two very common vowel sounds occur as the ΓÇÿaΓÇÖ in about (represented as ΓÇÿAXΓÇÖ) and the ΓÇÿiΓÇÖ in solid (represented by ΓÇÿIXΓÇÖ). These are vowels, occurring in unstressed syllables, that are of very short duration. These vowels often occur before the consonants ΓÇÿlΓÇÖ, ΓÇÿmΓÇÖ, and ΓÇÿnΓÇÖ, so we have the contractions:
These contractions are not only easier to type, but they make your phonetic strings a little more readable.
