toPhonetics Converter

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About this app

Got an English text and want to see how to pronounce it? This app will turn your English text into its phonetic transcription using International Phonetic Alphabet.

Features:

- See phonetic transcription of the whole text, not just the dictionary forms of separate words.
- Choose between British and American* pronunciation. When British dialect is selected the [r] sound at the end of the word is only voiced if followed by a vowel, which follows British phonetic convention.
- 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.
- 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.
- Where a word has a number of possible pronunciations (highlighted in blue in the output) you can select the one that agrees with the context by tapping on it.
- Print (or export to PDF) your transcription results, IPA only or along with the original.

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

Ratings and reviews

I love this app. It's very useful for English teachers and learners alike. However, for a non-native English speaker, with little to no exposure to phonetic symbols at a proper school, like myself, the IPA characters are quite intimidating. Therefore, I would like to suggest that if you could kindly add a non-phoneme character set like the one used in WordWeb Dictionary, it'd be so much more helpful. Thank you. Please keep up the good work. Also, I don't mind the Ads. I can live with that.

This isn't a "phonetic" app, but rather a "phonemic" one, as if you type "pun" and "spun", this app uses the phonemes /pʌn/ and /spʌn/, instead of [pʰʌn] and /spʌn/ Also, it doesn't translate unknown words (such as people's first names), nor does it add "/" symbols at the start and end of phonemes (instead using the orthographic punctuation "full-stop" symbol to denote the end). There's also no option to translate IPA back to orthographic script either, and it can't be shared with "Line", etc.

So much cool, but I think there's some mistakes that occurred in the app. For example: It's missing the glottal stop sound /ʔ/, as in the word "kitten - kiʔn/", the flap sound /ɾ/, as in the word "little - lɪɾəl" and the R-Colored vowels /ɝ/ and /ɚ/, as in the words "after - æftɚ" and "certain - cɝʔn". It's missinɡ also the /ɫ/ and /d͡ʒ, t͡ʃ/. Thx!

What’s new

- Print (or export to PDF) your transcription results, IPA only or along with the original.
- Stability updates to ad management. Fixed the issue with a blank screen on app launch.