Bob The Minion
This app is great for TESTING yourself in various different ways, but it's not really designed to TEACH phonetics. Some pronunciations are fairly unpredictable, but that's mostly because English is wildy inconsistent. Overall, It's a great, free resource and definitely worth the download!
4 people found this review helpful
Kurt Furan
Decent in many ways, but an IPA quizzing app that thinks a middle "ehh" vowel is represented by the symbol [e] for a high "ey" vowel is useless. There is a reason it's called *International* Phonetic Alphabet. It's supposed to be universal. Use proper IPA and you'll have at least 4 stars from me.
5 people found this review helpful
A Google user
Excellent. "Guess word" has been tremendously useful to me. This game just made me exercise in a way I've never before had the opportunity, I could watch videos, research, read textbooks and articles, but this gives a new way to understand pronunciation. "Guess pronuciation" I don't like it, it's too hard, because there is too many ways to transcribe or interpret in IPA any word, for example the schwa can go in a lot of the unstressed syllables of any words, there is words with more than 1 pronunciation. It would be better if it would say it's correct despite this errors, if it would detect it's a possible plausible transcription. It requires some algorithm but it shouldn't be too hard to add a minimal intelligence to filter the most obvious alternatives spellings. Request: Add much more words to "guess word" (such as 10000 most common).
46 people found this review helpful