English Phonetic Spelling and IPA Transcription

First time here?

Watch a tutorial "How to convert text to phonetic transcription and listen to audio recordings of words"

Watch a tutorial "How to create custom word lists"

Jeevin

We know sometimes English may seem complicated. We don't want you to waste your time.

Check all our tools and learn English faster!

Greetings from the developer Timur

Find out how to activate your brain and learn faster (4 min.)

Timur Baytukalov. A Complete Guide to Language Learning. Part 1: Learning Pronunciation

Free Webinar "Learning English pronunciation the smart way" (26 min.)

In order to get access to all lessons, you need to buy the subscription Premium.

English pronunciation can be very confusing. As you know, there are no strict pronunciation rules in the English language, so when you see an unknown English word, you cannot be 100% sure how to pronounce it.

The same English letter, or combination of letters, can be pronounced differently in different words. Moreover, the same English word can be pronounced in different ways by native English speakers from different countries, or even from the same country! That makes the English language hard to learn and understand.

This online translator allows you to convert English text to phonetic transcription using International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) symbols. If you want to see the phonemic transcription, click on Advanced options - some of the options should be unchecked.

If you are a native English speaker and are not familiar with International Phonetic Alphabet, you may want to choose the option Convert to phonetic spelling.

This tool will serve as an English pronunciation guide and help you save time. You will no longer need to look up the pronunciation of a word in a dictionary.

If you use the phonetic transcription regularly in combination with English audio and video recordings, your pronunciation and listening skills in the English language will improve.

In order to help you train your speech organs, we created online pronunciation trainers:

They allow you to practice the pronunciation of the most frequent English words, set the playback speed and the number of times each word will be repeated.

Another great way to improve your American English pronunciation is to use our American English video vocabulary builder. It is designed for beginners and has English subtitles for all lessons, including phonetic transcription.

Homographs (words that are spelled the same, but are pronounced differently and have different meanings) are highlighted in green. If you hover your cursor over these words or tap them on your mobile device, you will see all the possible pronunciations. You may also see the part of speech for each word.

Pronunciation variants (when native speakers from different regions pronounce a word differently, or when the pronunciation changes during rapid speech) are highlighted in blue. You can also hover your cursor to see all possible variants.

This phonetic translator supports two most common English dialects:

To develop this translator, we used information from the online resources listed below and other sources. The phonetic transcription was taken from these sources in accordance with the Copyright Act of Canada (Paragraph 29, Fair Dealing for the purpose of education).

A special option allows you to highlight high-frequency English words. You can choose between two frequency lists:

The words from different frequency intervals will be highlighted in the following colors:

If you want to make a frequency analysis of your text and obtain detailed statistics, please use the English word frequency counter.

This phonetic translator has a built-in English dictionary, WordNet. After submitting your text, click on any word in the results to see its definition. This function only works if the transcription display above each word is enabled (this is the default option).

You can also create your own custom word lists. For that, after you submitted your text, click on any word and then click the button " to word list". You will be prompted to enter the meaning/translation (which is optional) and select the transcription. Once you finished adding words to your word list, you can export it into file (Word, Excel, plain text).

Although we used multiple sources to create this phonetic translator, when it comes to American English we always use Merriam-Webster dictionaries to confirm the correct pronunciation. Their Advanced Learner's Dictionary is one of the best that we have ever seen.

We also highly recommend their products for mobile devices:

Check our English phonetic subtitle converter and obtain something like this:

We have great news for English language learners. Recently we added the support for Australian English in our English IPA phonetic translator. The database contains more than 100,000 English words. We...

May 19 2022

We are happy to announce the release of a major update on EasyPronunciation.com. Here's the list of exciting new features: The site is now working faster and is more stable even...

Sep 4 2021

We are happy to announce that we added audio recordings of 9,400 British English words in our English Phonetic Translator on EasyPronunciation.com. The users with an active subscription receive this...

Aug 6 2020

We are happy to announce that we added audio recordings of 10,000 English words in our English Phonetic Translator on EasyPronunciation.com. The users with an active subscription receive this update...

Feb 5 2020

If you are learning English, French or Russian, we have great news for you! We decided to integrate all video recordings from our pronunciation courses into online phonetic translators. There are...

Oct 18 2017

There is a nice new feature in English phonetic translator. After you submit your text, you will see audio and video icons near some words. Click on the audio icon...

Aug 30 2017

During the last weeks I have been updating the algorithm of English phonetic translator, again! :) I guess, I will never stop polishing it. As usually, all the efforts were...

Apr 27 2017

I didn't write here for a very long time. And there was a reason for that. For the last three months I was working non-stop on English phonetic translator. I spent...

Jan 1 2017

There's a new update in the English phonetic translator. I integrated the lexical database WordNet into the translator. Now, after you submit your English text, you may click on any...

Nov 15 2015

I finally added an option that allows you to translate English text into phonetic transcription according to the pronunciation rules of the British English. Now you have four dictionaries that...

Sep 1 2015

I added the possibility to display phonetic transcription under each line of text in English, French and Spanish phonetic translators....

Dec 14 2013

I updated my English phonetic transcription translator. First, I added more popular English words. Second, I introduced another algorithm for text conversion. The new algorithm uses English Hunspell dictionary and...

Dec 3 2013

American English, British English, English, English phonetics, English pronunciation, IPA, IPA chart, IPA translator, dictionary, language learning, phonetic dictionary, phonetic transcription, subtitle converter

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz