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How to pronounce "Med-Dee-Deeah" in British English:
mɛd-diː-Deeah
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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
7 months ago
Reply to  toPhonetics

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

Andrea
Andrea
3 months ago
Reply to  toPhonetics

Hi, audio playback is extremely fast, too fast for a non-native English speaker to learn, unless I’m doing something wrong..?

Thanks

Andrea
Andrea
3 months ago
Reply to  toPhonetics

Thanks guys, I’ve tried that but it is not correlating at all to changing speed? Great page by the way!

Andrea
Andrea
3 months ago
Reply to  Andrea

Chrome ..

Khadija
22 days ago
Reply to  toPhonetics

It doesn’t work well for me, the audio cuts off when I put an intermediate text and it’s not that long, it’s just a short text but no, no, I read the text, it just reads the first two words and it cuts off and I’m using Chrome and it doesn’t work for me but on the computer it does but not on the tablet, my tablet is a Samsung Galaxy 9 a

Aud
Aud
5 hours ago

Where the speakers went? There is no anyone in the speaker and i can’t listen to any word.

sony
sony
1 day ago

it is very good i like this tool
thank you

Xicil
Xicil
5 days ago

When speaking American English, the Emmamultilingual Online will pronounce the “.” at the end of a paragragh. I’ve tried other multilinguals, they don’t have this problem. (Edge)

santi
santi
7 days ago

Hi, is it possible to download the audio?

J. Parsons
J. Parsons
7 days ago

stress pattern is OFTEN wrong, as in the word abhorant that I checked today. Your speaker stressed the first syllable, which is completely wrong. (In addition, the speaker seemed to introduce a ‘v’ at the point of the ‘h’. It’s not even an uncommon word and you’ve made two errors

Lex
Lex
8 days ago

The word ‘clunky’ isn’t transcribed

thanh
thanh
13 days ago

why it stop at the middle

Predrag
Predrag
14 days ago

Is it possible to type the text in English together with the transcription but without reading the transcription
For example:
Do you want to grab lunch? [du ju wɑnt tə ɡræb lʌntʃ]
And just read “Do you want to grab lunch?” without reading [du ju wɑnt tə ɡræb lʌntʃ] ??

ustuka
ustuka
18 days ago

The IPA for “bioscience” comes out /baɪoʊˈsiəns/, but “biosciences” becomes /baɪˈɔsiˌɛnsɪz/. I don’t think it is correct.

Andrea
Andrea
20 days ago

Hi! It seems that the pronunciation of the word ‘vase” in British is incorrect, transcription is different than the pronunciation of the word by the narrator. Transcription seems to be “va:z”, while the narrator uses the American “veis”. Please take a look at it!