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https://www.ipachart.com/

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The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is a set of symbols that linguists use to describe the sounds of spoken languages.

This page lets you hear the sounds that the symbols represent, but remember that it is only a rough guide. There is lots of variation in how these sounds are said depending on the language and context. For example, in English voiceless plosives usually end with a puff of air called aspiration, but the voiceless plosives on this page aren't aspirated.

Choose a symbol to hear the sound it represents.

For best results, please use a browser with HTML5 Audio support. The latest version of any popular web browser will do.

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Vowels

Pulmonic consonants

Bilabial

Labiodental

Dental

Alveolar

Post alveolar

Retroflex

Palatal

Velar

Uvular

Pharyngeal

Glottal

Non-pulmonic consonants

Clicks

Voiced implosives

Ejectives

ǁ Alveolar lateral

ʛ Uvular

ʼ etc...

Other symbols

ʍ Voiceless labial-velar fricative

w Voiced labial-velar approximant

ɥ Voiced labial-palatal approximant

ʜ Voiceless epiglottal fricative

ʢ Voiced epiglottal fricative

ʡ Epiglottal plosive

ɕ Voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative

ʑ Voiced alveolo-palatal fricative

ɺ Alveolar lateral flap

ɧ Simultaneous ʃ and x

Affricates

t͡s Voiceless alveolar affricate

t͡ʃ Voiceless palato-alveolar affricate

t͡ɕ Voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate

ʈ͡ʂ Voiceless retroflex affricate

d͡z Voiced alveolar affricate

d͡ʒ Voiced post-alveolar affricate

d͡ʑ Voiced alveolo-palatal affricate

ɖ͡ʐ Voiceless retroflex affricate

Queries and comments can be directed to [email protected]

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Hi! Got an English text and want to see how to pronounce it? This online converter of English text to IPA phonetic transcription will translate your English text into its phonetic transcription using the International Phonetic Alphabet. Paste or type your English text in the text field above and click "Show transcription" button (or use [Ctrl+Enter] shortcut from the text input area).

Features:

Choose between British and American* pronunciation. When British option is selected the [r] sound at the end of the word is only voiced if followed by a vowel, which follows British phonetic convention.

The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) symbols used.

The structure of the text and sentences in it (line breaks, punctuation marks, etc.) is preserved in phonetic transcription output making it easier to read.

An option to vary pronunciation depending on whether words are in stressed or weak position in the sentence, as in connected speech (checkbox "Show weak forms"). Weak forms are italicized in the output.

Words in CAPS are interpreted as acronyms if the word is not found in the database. Acronym transcriptions will be shown with hyphens between letters.

In addition to commonly used vocabulary the database contains a very substantial amount of place names (including names of countries, their capitals, US states, UK counties), nationalities and popular names.

You can output the text and its phonetic transcription along each other side-by-side or line-by-line to make back-reference to the original text easier. Just tick the appropriate checkbox in the input form.

Where a word has a number of different pronunciations (highlighted in blue in the output) you can select the one that agrees with the context by clicking on it. To see a popup with a list of possible pronunciations move your mouse cursor over the word.
Note that different pronunciations of one word may have different meanings or may represent variations in pronunciation with the same meaning. If unsure which pronunciation is relevant in your particular case, consult a dictionary.

The dictionary database is regularly amended with most popular missing words (shown in red in the output).

The text can be read out loud in browsers with speech synthesis support (Safari, Chrome).

*) American transcriptions are based on the open Carnegie Mellon University Pronouncing Dictionary.

We encourage students of linguistics/phonetics to do their own work during their assignments and remind them that submitting transcriptions produced by this website for academic credit is a breach of academic integrity.

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Hi! Got an English text and want to see how to pronounce it? This online converter of English text to IPA phonetic transcription will translate your English text into its phonetic transcription using the International Phonetic Alphabet. Paste or type your English text in the text field above and click "Show transcription" button (or use [Ctrl+Enter] shortcut from the text input area).

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Using the Benjamin Franklin method to improve your accent? Create your own notes by selecting a variety of markup tools available to annotate your text.

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read things in accents. Just add IPA!

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What Is This?

This is a tool for reading International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) notation aloud.

It makes it easy to actually hear how words are pronounced based on their phonetic spelling, without having to look up each character in the IPA chart and string the sounds together yourself.

For example, "budgerigar" (AKA the common parakeet) can be pronounced according to its IPA notation/ˈbʌdʒərɪɡɑːr/.

How Do You Use It?

Find a word you would like to hear pronounced, grab the IPA notation (if you don't already have it, Wiktionary is a great place to look), toss it in the form, and hit the "Read" button.

For example, /ˈpɪdʒən/ will be read as "pigeon."

How Does It Work?

I had fun making this, so I wrote about how it was built here!

Who Am I?

I'm nobody! Who are you?

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This is a tool for reading International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) notation aloud. It makes it easy to actually hear how words are pronounced based on their phonetic spelling, without having to look up each character in the IPA chart and string the sounds together yourself.

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Use this plugin to remove distractions and print pdfs from articles

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Clearly Reader - Your missing reader mode

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Enable reader mode on any readablity webpage. Your missing great reader

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Archive of articles annotated in classes with my students. The topics are in [ square brackets ]

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Here are all English phonemes and how to pronounce them, as well as common mispronunciations: http://phonemes.accentamazing.com/

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Useful site with short, easier articles. Also includes discussion questions for monologuing practice

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Daily News is a free service for English learners provided by Engoo. New articles are added every day, covering a range of topics and difficulty levels. Although the articles can be used for self study, they are intended for use with a teacher. To book a lesson with one of our professional teachers, please visit Engoo. If you would like to use our articles for commercial purposes, please contact us here.

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News content from around the world for English learners. Updated daily for all levels, beginner to advanced!

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https://fangj.github.io/friends/

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Search for a word and get other words that rhyme with it. This is useful because then you know they all have the same vowel!

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Helps you type International Phonetic Alphabet symbols which we use in phonetics

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This IPA keyboard allows you to type pronunciations of English words as they appear in major English dictionaries from publishers like Longman, Oxford, etc. Dictionary transcriptions are "phonemic transcriptions". They only give you the broad-strokes view of the pronunciation - just enough to make sure you won't confuse two different words. If you need to represent precise sound qualities (for example, the different quality of p in pot vs. spot) or differences between accents of English, use the full IPA keyboard instead.

After you copy text from the above box and paste it into your word processor or e-mail message, make sure you choose a Unicode font with IPA symbols in your word processor or e-mail application. Otherwise, phonetic symbols may not display correctly.

Recommended IPA fonts available on various platforms:

If some of the symbols don't display correctly, you'll need to download a third-party IPA font.

For help with transcribing, refer to Antimoon's chart with IPA phonetic symbols, example words, and recordings (make sure you read the footnotes).

Notes on specific symbols:

ɪ̈ can be used to represent a "weak ɪ" (as in ), which usually sounds like something between ɪ and ə.

ʊ̈ can be used to represent a "weak ʊ" (as in ), which usually sounds like something between ʊ and ə.

t̬ can be used to indicate places where a "flap t" is normally pronounced in American English. For example, letter can be transcribed /ˈlet̬əʳ/.

can represent an optional ə (schwa) before a syllabic consonant, as in .

ɛ, ɹ, ɚ, ɝ, ɫ and ɾ are not necessary in phonemic transcriptions, but are provided for those who might need them.

If you're learning other languages, check out my other online keyboards, e.g. Russian keyboard, French keyboard, etc.

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Type IPA phonetic symbols - online keyboard

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This IPA keyboard allows you to type pronunciations of English words as they appear in major English dictionaries from publishers like Longman, Oxford, etc. Dictionary transcriptions are "phonemic transcriptions". They only give you the broad-strokes view of the pronunciation - just enough to make sure you won't confuse two different words.

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Type a word and Youglish gets you a clip of a native speaker saying the word in a real life context

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When words sound different in isolation vs. in a sentence, look up the pronunciation first in a dictionary, then use https://youglish.com

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Recordings of speakers with different accents. Useful for those interested in regional accents and dialects