The phonetic encoding of the phrase.
| Enums | |
|---|---|
| PHONETIC_ENCODING_UNSPECIFIED | Not specified. | 
| PHONETIC_ENCODING_IPA | IPA, such as apple -> ˈæpəl. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet | 
| PHONETIC_ENCODING_X_SAMPA | X-SAMPA, such as apple -> "{p@l". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-SAMPA | 
| PHONETIC_ENCODING_JAPANESE_YOMIGANA | For reading-to-pron conversion to work well, the  The pronunciation can also contain pitch accents. The start of a pitch phrase is specified with  We currently only support the Tokyo dialect, which allows at most one down-pitch per phrase (i.e. at most one  | 
| PHONETIC_ENCODING_PINYIN | Used to specify pronunciations for Mandarin words. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinyin. For example: 朝阳, the pronunciation is "chao2 yang2". The number represents the tone, and there is a space between syllables. Neutral tones are represented by 5, for example 孩子 "hai2 zi5". |