This online translator allows you to convert Russian text to phonetic transcription using either International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) symbols or Cyrillic letters. This tool will serve as a Russian pronunciation guide and will help you save time during your first steps in Russian, while you are still learning the pronunciation rules.

The use of sequences of phonetic symbols to represent speech is known as transcription." Handbook of the International Phonetic Association (Cambridge University Press, 1999, p3) The version of the IPA presented on these pages is the version revised to 2005.