Convert IPA to text; Option to loop speech audio; Improving linking rules for American transcriptions; Improving word stress and phrasal stress to better reflect patterns of connected speech; Sentence/phrase mark-up option. Workaround for speech cutting off after a few sentences in Chrome. Input form redesign; Option to select speech voice;

A Retrospective into English Phonetic Transcription. Although the use of International Phonetic Alphabet gained significant momentum during recent decades, it still raises a lot of questions, especially among the learners of English as a foreign language. Most of the confusion stems from the minor differences between transcriptions found in ...

Shouldn’t [t] between vowels be a flap [ɾ]? The website is focusing on phonemic transcriptions, so this particular case is out of scope. On top of that, even if we limit this feature to NAmE, there are too many factors involved. There is just no exact phonological rule …

The IPA character set used for American English is slightly different from the one used for British English, which reflects phonetic differences between the two dialects. Nevertheless, thanks to the efforts of the International Phonetic Association, both systems are fairly unified which allows to switch between the two easily.