Keyboard

This online keyboard let’s you type IPA using your hardware keyboard. The full IPA character set is arranged into 4 layouts:

Main: most common characters;
WIth Shift key down: the rest of most common characters;
With Alt key down: diacritics;
With Alt+Shift down: tone marks, clicks and the rest characters.

Press Shift and/or Alt keys on your hardware keyboard to learn the additional layouts. When you are happy, just copy the content of the field with your usual “Select All” and “Copy” commands.

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toPhonetics

1 year ago

Hi! This is the first iteration of the keyboard. Please, give it a try and let us know here in the comments your thoughts on the character layout, whether any characters are missing or any features you would like to see added.

Happy typing!

Yaaki

1 month ago

Hello! Your website is pretty complete, but could i ask if it would possible for you to create a keyboard that could read aloud the transcriptions users write in it? I think it would be a very useful tool to add! In any case, thank you for developing this site!

toPhonetics

1 month ago

Reply to Yaaki

Thank you for the suggestion, will consider. If you have an iOS device, our toPhonetics Keyboard already does that.

Shelley

1 month ago

Your site and your keyboard are amazing. Thank you so very much.

Carolina

3 months ago

How can I do to write Phonemes in social media. COPY AND PASTE?

TemWatchEgg

4 months ago

When I press ctrl+c (I’m using Chrome on Windows 10), it doesn’t copy the selected text, and it also replaces it with “ɔ”. (I can right-click to copy it, but if I forget and press ctrl+c, it’s frustrating and can make me lose what I’ve done.
Then if I press ctrl+z, it doesn’t undo it, and it also types a “z”.

It will make this tool a lot nicer to use if you:

Don’t swallow the user’s inputs if they’re pressing ctrl, and/or
Allow the user to press ctrl+z to undo previous actions (and ctrl+shift+z or ctrl+y to redo them) — I can guess that the way you’re implementing this currently may not be compatible with the default undo system for text areas, in which case you would have to either create an undo stack from scratch or change the way the IPA keyboard works, but an undo feature would really go a long way.

In any case, this can certainly be a very useful tool, and I appreciate it regardless.

Thank you!