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How to pronounce "anyway" in American English:
ˈɛniˌweɪ
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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).

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  • 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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Fynjy
Fynjy
1 day ago

ENG:Thank you for this site! It’s very useful. I wish you all the best!
RUS: Спасибо Вам за этот сайт!
Сайт очень полезный. Желаю Вам всего наилучшего!

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JWSZBNFCVMJQ
1 day ago

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EL mehdi el aabidi
2 days ago

it is a good website that helpful to communication clearly and fluently

Luis Naveda
6 days ago

me ayuda mucho para aprender a pronunciar y mejorar mis notas en el colegio

Dmitry
Dmitry
7 days ago

EN:Thank you for this site! It’s very useful. I wish you all the best!
RU: Спасибо Вам за этот сайт!
Сайт очень полезный. Желаю Вам всего наилучшего!

Last edited 7 days ago by Dmitry
Max
Max
12 days ago

For the word best it writes little sigma to the right but I saw it every where the little sigma to the left with two spots.

I_Left_the_left
I_Left_the_left
13 days ago

A word linking option would be great

Lisa D
Lisa D
11 days ago
Reply to  toPhonetics

perhaps he means showing connected speech

плохо
плохо
20 days ago

плохой сайт не транкрипция а просто ужас в крайнем случае на русском отвратительно всё по другому

Hollow knight
Hollow knight
1 month ago

Add Cybercrime

arvin
arvin
1 month ago

it would be nice to include translation

Ben
Ben
3 days ago
Reply to  arvin

i’d would like that