Phonetics and the IPA 6, Exercise 1: reading the cells Pair of letters in one cell: the letter on the right is voiced, the one on the left is voiceless. (Exception noted by Wikipedia: breathy-voiced [ɦ].) Lone letter in a cell: it represents a voiced consonant. Shaded cell: an articulation judged impossible or not distinctive. Example: in the bilabial stop cell, [p] (left) is voiceless and [b] (right) is voiced. In the nasal row, a lone [m] is a voiced nasal.