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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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Bucky
Bucky
5 days ago

How would this page be cited for TEFL Academy?

João
João
9 days ago

Why was “here” transcribed /hir/ instead of /hɪr/?

João
João
9 days ago
Reply to  João

And the same happens with the word “hear”.

Tiff
Tiff
9 days ago
Reply to  João

i is the ee sound and ɪ is the ih sound, so here and hear is supposed to be hir (heer). What I don’t understand is, deer is transcribed as dɪr (dihr) and ethereal is transcribed as ɪˈθɪriəl (ih-thihr-ee-uhl) instead of ih-theer-ee-uhl

Rain
Rain
9 days ago

Show transcription at Line by line with English Text have problems. Pls to repair this one

bio
bio
12 days ago

I wish there was a way (if there is, please show me how) to upload your own transcriptions of words that don’t currently exist in the dictionary so that they can be used in the future

Renata
Renata
14 days ago

Thank you for this page. I use it, amongst other materials, to prepare for a phonetics exam. I wish all the materials would have this form or form of a videographics – much better to learn with many examples, than to learn dry rules and examples of exceptions…

Prof W
Prof W
15 days ago

This offered “r” for the American or British “r” sound (rough, sarah). Isn’t the IPA “r” a rolled R?

Coffe
Coffe
9 days ago
Reply to  Prof W

The “r” used in English transcription both for American and British English could mean any “r-like” sound, which is more commonly the [ɹ̠] or [ɑ].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_phonology#cite_note-15

Сергей
Сергей
15 days ago

Нет транскрипции для слова swirly [ˈswɜːlɪ] или [ˈswəːlɪ].

Tiff
Tiff
16 days ago

In US, tree and try often sound more like chree and chry. Why is that not reflected here?

000!!
000!!
17 days ago

It would be nice to see in the future an option that allows you to transcribe and see the all phonetic adjustments possible to apply in my transcription

João
João
17 days ago

Why was “poor” transcribed /pur/ instead of /pʊr/?