Phonemes: IPA & pronuciation

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About this app

With this app you can 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.

Transcription is possible from English, Spanish, Portuguese and Russian with more languages to follow.

Look up charts for:
- Vowels
- Pulmonic consonants
- Non-pulmonic consonants (ejectives, clicks, implosives)
- Other symbols such as suprasegmentals and word accents

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.

Now I noticed, but while trying to transcribe Italian into IPA, "c'è" is transcribed as [kɛ] instead of [ʧɛ]. Also, there aren't any primary or secondary stress symbols (ˈ and ˌ), so the Italian letters "à, è, ì, ò and ù" aswell as the Spanish letters "á, é, í, ó and ú" are transcribed with tonal marks instead of stress symbols. Also, the German digraphs "äu, äi" are transcribed as [ɛːʊ] and [ɛːɪ] instead of [ɔʏ] and [aɪ].

Just downloaded it. Seems really useful but the vowel chart is wrong, what is a pity since it is its main use. I see that the chart in the screenshots of the app is correct. Is this a bug in the latest version??

What's new

- Make loading of additional language data more robust
- Added much more languages
- Fix crashes when no internet connection