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.
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I’m on Firefox/Windows, and it’s not working for me.
This is such a great webpage – thank you! It would be great if we could share the results via a hardcoded link or similar.
Thank you for the suggestion. This feature has been added recently. Clicking the “link” icon below the output will copy the URL into your pasteboard so you can paste it from there.
How many syllabes ‘word’ has, whwre is the stress, and how many scha’s does it have?
Nice thank you’re goat
These is great, fantastic, useful, wonderful and helpful to me as I am an English Olympiad Participant.
you should add the word “euouae”
Tại sao e dán 1 đoạn văn dài mà app chỉ đọc được mấy chữ là sao ạ
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/.
You are correct, the website provides phonemic transcriptions. It’s just “phonetic transcription” is a familiar term to a wider audience. Sorry for the confusion.
It is very good ?
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/
Wе did nоt find a planе=ˈdʌbəljuе dɪd ɛnоti faɪnd ə plænе
error please
See those “e” and “o” are bold grey? That means they are ignored as they are non-English characters, perhaps Cyrillic. Retype them and it’ll be fine.
Night mode?