---
title: phoneme
framework: avfaudio
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: avfaudio/avspeechsynthesismarker/phoneme
---

# phoneme

A string that represents a distinct sound.

## Declaration

```swift
var phoneme: String { get set }
```

## See Also

### Inspecting a marker

- [mark](avfaudio/avspeechsynthesismarker/mark-swift.property.md)
- [bookmarkName](avfaudio/avspeechsynthesismarker/bookmarkname.md)
- [textRange](avfaudio/avspeechsynthesismarker/textrange.md)
- [byteSampleOffset](avfaudio/avspeechsynthesismarker/bytesampleoffset.md)
- [AVSpeechSynthesisMarker.Mark](avfaudio/avspeechsynthesismarker/mark-swift.enum.md)