---
title: soPhonemeSymbols
framework: applicationservices
role: symbol
role_heading: Global Variable
path: applicationservices/sophonemesymbols
---

# soPhonemeSymbols

## Declaration

```swift
var soPhonemeSymbols: OSType { get }
```

## Discussion

Discussion Get a list of phoneme symbols and example wordsdefined for the speech channel’s synthesizer. Your applicationmight use this information to show the user what symbols to usewhen entering phonemic text directly. The speechInfo parameteris a pointer to a variable of type Handle that, on exit from the GetSpeechInfo function,is a handle to a phoneme descriptor structure, described in PhonemeDescriptor. This selector works with the GetSpeechInfo function.