Unalengua IPA Translator

Unalengua

About this app

Unalengua IPA Translator is the first modern phonetic (IPA) transcriber with prolonged reading features (minimalistic UI, dark mode) and read aloud capabilities (Text-to-Speech, speech tracking).

Engage your senses and improve your domain of English’s language.

Beautiful Design

Minimalistic UI
Material design
Free of ads

Accessibility at its core

Dark mode
Text-To-Speech
Highlighting of spoken words

Multilingual

What is IPA?

The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation.

The IPA spelling system (phonetic transcription) is more reliable than the English spelling system because the spelling of an English word does not tell you how you should pronounce It.

Linguists designed IPA to be unambiguous: every symbol has only one pronunciation. When you read a word in IPA, you'll know exactly  how to pronounce it.

Why should I learn IPA ?

The IPA is used by lexicographers, foreign language students and teachers, linguists, speech-language pathologists, singers, actors, constructed language creators and translators.

Every aspiring polyglot should learn to read the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). It's a powerful tool when learning any language.

What's the challenge?

However, many people find phonetic symbols, which are the ABC’s of transcription, bizarre and hard to comprehend.

How this app makes a difference ?

This remarkable app changes, in big way, the experience of learning IPA. It basically transforms the experience from boring to very engaging by making learning and practicing addictive.

Besides English to IPA conversion allows other conversions: Spanish to IPA, Portuguese to IPA, German to IPA, Italian to IPA, Polish to IPA and Esperanto to IPA.

Ratings and reviews

Does what it's supposed to. Very solid core function. Offers US, English, Australian, India accents and corresponding IPA. However, three issues: 1. It's easy to accidentally delete text due to usually invisible "x" button 2. Long text (~ 4 lines) visually glitch where the text is doubled, and overlays both sections, making it very hard to read. 3. There's no support for pasting IPA and having it read phonetically. Edit: adding a star due to exellent dev responsiveness. Thanks, and cheers!

This application is incredible, it helps me a lot with the pronunciation of words and with the help of the international phonetic alphabet I can identify the sounds more easily and not only can I translate words I can also translate phrases, I love it and I use it a lot for my English learning

Works quite well for determining pronunciation of words from any of the supported languages, but it would benefit greatly from the ability to use IPA symbols directly (i.e. a language option which just "translates" the inputted text to itself with non-IPA symbols removed)

What’s new

adds new speech recognition functionality