The following table describes the phonetic symbols used in Visharad Transcriptor together with examples. The first column contains the phonetic symbols;and the second column contains t examples. The letters in the examples, which are pronounced the way the phonetic symbols represent, have been made bold and underlined. As an example, phonetic symbol d is pronounced like th of this; therefore the word this is mentioned as the example for d and th of this is bold and underlined as in this. There are some sounds, which are usually not pronounced by native English speakers. No English words have been given for those as examples. Rather, the pronunciation of these have been explained in other means as you can see in the table.
 

 

Phonetic Symbol	Example
a	cup, luck, away
aa, A	arm, father
i	hit, pin
ee,ii, I	see, heat
u	put, could
oo, uu	food
e	met, bed
ai	cat, black
o	home
au	hot, rock
R	similar to ri but with very short i sound and tongue should be curled back. Example: as in Hindu God Krishna
k	cat, black, skip
kh	aspirated k
g	give, flag
gh	aspirated g
ch	check, church
chh	aspirated ch
j	zoo, jump, pleasure, just
jh	aspirated j
T	tea
Th	aspirated T
D	did
Dh	aspirated D
N	similar to n given below but with tongue curled back
t	unaspirated th
th	think, both
d	this, mother
dh	aspirated d
n	no
p	pet, map
f	find, if, phone
b	bad, lab
bh	aspirated b
m	man, lemon
y	yes, yellow
r	red
l	leg, little
v	Wet, voice
sh	she, crash
Sh	similar to sh but with tongue curled back to touch the palate
s	sun
h	hello
x	k sound immediately followed by Sh sound
jn	similar to nasalised g sound followed by y sound

NOTE: Put a hyphen (-) between phonetics for two consecutive syllables. Example: Michael should be written as maa-i-kal.