Convert text to phonetic representations and explore the pronunciation of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)! Explore place and manner of pronunciation, and see a visual representation of the mouth while pronouncing.
Whether you're a language learner, singer, actor, or simply fascinated by phonetics, this app is your key to mastering the nuances of speech.
Transcription is possible from English, Spanish, Portuguese and Russian, with many more languages listed below.
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Look up charts for:
- Vowels
- Pulmonic consonants
- Non-pulmonic consonants (ejectives, clicks, implosives)
- Other symbols such as suprasegmentals and word accents
The following languages are supported for phoneme conversion:
- Afar (Cushitic) (aar)
- Afrikaans (af)
- Amharic (am)
- Aragonese (an)
- Arabic (ar)
- Assamese (as)
- Assyrian (Neo-Aramaic) (syr)
- Avaric (Dagestani) (ava)
- Azerbaijani (az)
- Bashkir (ba)
- Belarusian (be)
- Bulgarian (bg)
- Bengali (bn)
- Bishnupriya Manipuri (bpy)
- Bosnian (bs)
- Bukusu (Masaba) (bxk)
- Catalan (ca)
- Cebuano (Philippines) (ceb)
- Cherokee (chr-us-qaaa-x-west)
- Chinese (Mandarin, latin as English) (cmn)
- Chinese (Mandarin, latin as Pinyin) (cmn-latn-pinyin)
- Czech (cs)
- Chuvash (cv)
- Welsh (cy)
- Danish (da)
- German (de)
- Greek (el)
- English (Caribbean) (en-029)
- English (Great Britain) (en-gb)
- English (Scotland) (en-gb-scotland)
- English (Lancaster) (en-gb-x-gbclan)
- English (West Midlands) (en-gb-x-gbcwmd)
- English (Received Pronunciation) (en-gb-x-rp)
- English (America) (en-us)
- English (America, New York City) (en-us-nyc)
- Esperanto (eo)
- Spanish (Spain) (es)
- Spanish (Latin America) (es-419)
- Estonian (et)
- Basque (eu)
- Persian (fa)
- Persian (Pinglish) (fa-latn)
- Finnish (fi)
- French (Belgium) (fr-be)
- French (Switzerland) (fr-ch)
- French (France) (fr-fr)
- Gaelic (Irish) (ga)
- Gaelic (Scottish) (gd)
- Guarani (gn)
- Greek (Ancient) (grc)
- Gujarati (gu)
- Hakka Chinese (hak)
- Hawaiian (haw)
- Hebrew (he)
- Hindi (hi)
- Croatian (hr)
- Haitian Creole (ht)
- Hungarian (hu)
- Armenian (East Armenia) (hy)
- Armenian (West Armenia) (hyw)
- Interlingua (ia)
- Indonesian (id)
- Ido (io)
- Icelandic (is)
- Italian (it)
- Japanese (ja)
- Jin (Chinese) (cjy)
- Lojban (jbo)
- Georgian (ka)
- Kazakh (kk)
- Greenlandic (kl)
- Kannada (kn)
- Korean (ko)
- Konkani (kok)
- Kurdish (ku)
- Kyrgyz (ky)
- Latin (la)
- Luxembourgish (lb)
- Lingua Franca Nova (lfn)
- Lithuanian (lt)
- Latgalian (ltg)
- Latvian (lv)
- Māori (mi)
- Macedonian (mk)
- Malayalam (ml)
- Marathi (mr)
- Malay (ms)
- Maltese (mt)
- Mongolian (Cyrillic alphabet) (mon)
- Totontepec Mixe (mto)
- Myanmar (Burmese) (my)
- Norwegian Bokmål (nb)
- Nahuatl (Classical) (nci)
- Nepali (ne)
- Dutch (nl)
- Nogai (nog)
- Oromo (om)
- Oriya (or)
- Punjabi (pa)
- Papiamento (pap)
- Klingon (piqd)
- Polish (pl)
- Portuguese (Portugal) (pt)
- Portuguese (Brazil) (pt-br)
- Pyash (py)
- Lang Belta (qdb)
- Quechua (qu)
- K'iche' (quc)
- Quenya (qya)
- Romanian (ro)
- Russian (Classic) (ru-cl)
- Russian (Latvia) (ru-lv)
- Sindhi (sd)
- Shan (Tai Yai) (shn)
- Sinhala (si)
- Sindarin (sjn)
- Slovak (sk)
- Slovenian (sl)
- Sorani (Kurdish) (ckb)
- Lule Saami (smj)
- Albanian (sq)
- Serbian (sr)
- Swedish (sv)
- Swahili (sw)
- Tamil (ta)
- Telugu (te)
- Thai (th)
- Tigrinya (ti)
- Turkmen (tk)
- Setswana (tn)
- Turkish (tr)
- Tatar (tt)
- Uyghur (ug)
- Ukrainian (uk)
- Urdu (ur)
- Uzbek (uz)
- Vietnamese (Central) (vi-vn-x-central)
- Vietnamese (Southern) (vi-vn-x-south)
