Phonemes: IPA & pronuciation

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About this app

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.

Power users can install an IPA system keyboard by purchasing the full version.

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)

Ratings and reviews

Paid but still getting Ads. This is a pretty good app for learning the IPA but even though I'm running the full paid version, it still pops up ads. That's why I only gave it 3 stars. The other reason is that the settings are hard to find in the GUI and it doesn't scale well at all on tablets. The other large complaint is that you can't use it without an internet connection which makes it unusable on a plane, which is a place I would very much like to spend my time learning phonemes.

The interface could be more polished, I'd like to see the main chart of IPA has be shown then by selection of a language the phonemes been highlighted.

Really useful, but it is very fast when played. This can be changed as the dev comment says. Thanks devs! ♥️