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Hi! Got an English text and want to see how to pronounce it? This online converter of English text to IPA phonetic transcription will translate your English text into its phonetic transcription using the International Phonetic Alphabet. Paste or type your English text in the text field above and click “Show transcription” button (or use [Ctrl+Enter] shortcut from the text input area).

Features:

  • Choose between British and American* pronunciation. When British option is selected the [r] sound at the end of the word is only voiced if followed by a vowel, which follows British phonetic convention.
  • The 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 (checkbox “Show weak forms”). Weak forms are italicized in the output.
  • Words in CAPS are interpreted as acronyms if the word is not found in the database. Acronym transcriptions will be shown with hyphens between letters.
  • 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.
  • You can output the text and its phonetic transcription along each other side-by-side or line-by-line to make back-reference to the original text easier. Just tick the appropriate checkbox in the input form.
  • Where a word has a number of different pronunciations (highlighted in blue in the output) you can select the one that agrees with the context by clicking on it. To see a popup with a list of possible pronunciations move your mouse cursor over the word.
    Note that different pronunciations of one word may have different meanings or may represent variations in pronunciation with the same meaning. If unsure which pronunciation is relevant in your particular case, consult a dictionary.
  • The dictionary database is regularly amended with most popular missing words (shown in red in the output).
  • The text can be read out loud in browsers with speech synthesis support (Safari, Chrome).
*) American transcriptions are based on the open Carnegie Mellon University Pronouncing Dictionary.

We encourage students of linguistics/phonetics to do their own work during their assignments and remind them that submitting transcriptions produced by this website for academic credit is a breach of academic integrity.

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Anon
Anon
2 months ago
Reply to  toPhonetics

I’m on Firefox/Windows, and it’s not working for me.

Anthony
Anthony
6 months ago

This is such a great webpage – thank you! It would be great if we could share the results via a hardcoded link or similar.

Lewis
Lewis
2 days ago

Hi! Why do you call these phonetic transcriptions? They are phonemic transcriptions. Some broad phonetic transcriptions coincide with their phonemic transcriptions, but not always. For example, the broadest phonetic transcription for butter in GenAm is [ˈbʌɾɚ] (tap realization of /t/), while the phonemic transcription is /ˈbʌtər/.

Success
Success
5 days ago

It is very good ?

Helen
Helen
9 days ago

Find the mistakes (2 en each):  
 
1.      ɪz ‘gləʊbəl ‘wɔːmɪn ə’fektɪŋ ðə ‘wedə || ‘ɔːlsəʊ | kən wɪ duː ‘sʌmθɪŋ ə’baʊt ɪt/
/jes | ɪt ɪz | ənd jes | wɪ kæn/
 
2.      /jes sɜː || ɪz ‘enɪθɪŋ rɒn/
/wel | ‘sʌmθɪŋ ‘sətənlɪ ɪz/
 
3.      /gʊd || wɒt kəŋ’kluːʒəns həv jʊ riːʧd ə’baʊt ðə məʊtɪ’veɪʃən bɪ’haɪnd ðə ‘mɜːdərəz ‘ækʃən/
 

walter
walter
10 days ago

Wе did nоt find a planе=ˈdʌbəljuе dɪd ɛnоti faɪnd ə plænе
error please

Hinata
Hinata
28 days ago

Night mode?

Bella
Bella
1 month ago

Do we have to use IPA when writing a foreign essay? Thanks!

Last edited 1 month ago by Bella
Paitoon
Paitoon
1 month ago

Hello,Is it legal to copy the IPA symbols transcripton to my file for making my English pronunciation lessons?Thanks.

Paitoon
Paitoon
1 month ago
Reply to  toPhonetics

Thanks, I’m a beginner English learner, honestly I didn’t quite get what you mean,May I ask a question again May I copy your IPA transcripton to my file,Thanks.?

Ляля
Ляля
1 month ago
Reply to  Paitoon

Копируйте на здоровье!

Paitoon
Paitoon
1 month ago
Reply to  Ляля

Thanks, Although I didn’t understand Russian,I did translate by online site,the meaning is positive,Have a nice day!

Paitoon
Paitoon
1 month ago
Reply to  toPhonetics

Thanks,I appreciated it.Have a nice day!

muh
muh
29 days ago
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I like this website

Sas
Sas
1 month ago

Explain me all of verbal times

Jorge Guano
Jorge Guano
1 month ago

Can I use phophoneticsnscription for business purposes?

Jorge Guano
Jorge Guano
1 month ago
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I am an English teacher for adults with a heavy accent. I use your service to transcribe 700-word documents to Phoneme characters so the students can read aloud and detect mispronunciation; the classes are online and paid for by the student. The text used is from the public domain material. I request permission to use your services. I will acknowledge “tophonetics.com” in each document I publish. Students are recommended to use “tophonetics.com” for their homework transcriptions.

Diane Chan
Diane Chan
1 month ago

How can we copy the transcription and paste it somewhere else. Thank you!