Unalengua IPA Translator

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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.
Modern IPA Transcriber with read aloud capabilities and great UX.
Updated on
Aug 27, 2025

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Ratings and reviews

173 reviews
UnknownProfileGPT
September 24, 2023
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
3 people found this review helpful
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Unalengua
November 18, 2023
We are very pleased to hear that. Thanks for sharing your experience of using the app along your journey of learning/improving a language.
Ghosty MacKnight
August 24, 2023
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!
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Unalengua
August 24, 2023
Thanks Connor for your great feedback, we appreciate it. We plan to fix the delete button issue soon. The 2nd issue is a long-standing one indeed, we might need to redo that part of the app from scratch so it could take more time. Lastly pasting or writing (using virtual keyboard) IPA is not something we plan to support anytime soon unfortunately.
Manuel Meza
May 2, 2021
This is an excellent app probably the best I have ever tried, this is what I have been waiting for a long time. 👍 Do you think you can add the function where I am reading a text on a web page and I would like to be able to highlight a word and have the option to transcribe it directly to phonetics with this app. THAN YOU.
4 people found this review helpful
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Unalengua
May 7, 2021
Thank you Manuel for your review and feedback 🙏. We are working on an option to transcribe a whole article. But if you only need to transcribe a word you might find our chrome extension (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/unalengua-ipa-translator/cgdbpnmhhkgaaahpmgmmibiifdegidbl) useful, we developed it with that exact use case in mind.

What’s new

adds new speech recognition functionality
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About the developer
Efren Carbajal Escamilla
efren.ce@gmail.com
United States