IPA Chart With Sounds. Note: We have a new version of the IPA chart with sounds available here. Listen to each of the sounds from the International Phonetic Alphabet. Click on a symbol to hear the associated sound.

Interactive IPA Chart The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is a set of symbols that linguists use to describe the sounds of spoken languages. This page lets you hear the sounds that the symbols represent, but remember that it is only a rough guide.

The charts are ordered roughly from most common sounds to most obscure: common consonant manners, vowels, nasal vowels, rarer consonant manners, and clicks. Each consonant character has four (where possible) associated sound files: top left is the sound by itself; top right is the sound followed by [a] bottom left is the sound preceded by [a]

On the Pronunciation Studio chart, we have two additional sounds (45 and 46) which are alternative versions of phonemes and are known as allophones (more on these below). For a detailed introduction to the IPA chart’s sounds, mouth positions, phonetic alphabet and voicing, follow the free introduction chapter of The Sound of English: