Phonemes

With this app you can convert text to phonetic representations and explore the pronunciation of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)! Explore place and manner of pronunciation, and see a visual representation of the mouth while pronouncing.

Transcription is possible from English, Spanish, Portuguese and Russian, with more languages listed below.

Look up charts for:
- Vowels
- Pulmonic consonants
- Non-pulmonic consonants (ejectives, clicks, implosives)
- Other symbols such as suprasegmentals and word accents

The following languages are supported for phoneme conversion:
- Afrikaans (af)
- Amharic (am)
- Aragonese (an)
- Arabic (ar)
- Assamese (as)
- Azerbaijani (az)
- Bashkir (ba)
- Belarusian (be)
- Bulgarian (bg)
- Bengali (bn)
- Bishnupriya Manipuri (bpy)
- Bosnian (bs)
- Catalan (ca)
- Cherokee (chr-us-qaaa-x-west)
- Chinese (Mandarin, latin as English) (cmn)
- Chinese (Mandarin, latin as Pinyin) (cmn-latn-pinyin)
- Czech (cs)
- Chuvash (cv)
- Welsh (cy)
- Danish (da)
- German (de)
- Greek (el)
- English (Caribbean) (en-029)
- English (Great Britain) (en-gb)
- English (Scotland) (en-gb-scotland)
- English (Lancaster) (en-gb-x-gbclan)
- English (West Midlands) (en-gb-x-gbcwmd)
- English (Received Pronunciation) (en-gb-x-rp)
- English (America) (en-us)
- English (America, New York City) (en-us-nyc)
- Esperanto (eo)
- Spanish (Spain) (es)
- Spanish (Latin America) (es-419)
- Estonian (et)
- Basque (eu)
- Persian (fa)
- Persian (Pinglish) (fa-latn)
- Finnish (fi)
- French (Belgium) (fr-be)
- French (Switzerland) (fr-ch)
- French (France) (fr-fr)
- Gaelic (Irish) (ga)
- Gaelic (Scottish) (gd)
- Guarani (gn)
- Greek (Ancient) (grc)
- Gujarati (gu)
- Hakka Chinese (hak)
- Hawaiian (haw)
- Hebrew (he)
- Hindi (hi)
- Croatian (hr)
- Haitian Creole (ht)
- Hungarian (hu)
- Armenian (East Armenia) (hy)
- Armenian (West Armenia) (hyw)
- Interlingua (ia)
- Indonesian (id)
- Ido (io)
- Icelandic (is)
- Italian (it)
- Japanese (ja)
- Lojban (jbo)
- Georgian (ka)
- Kazakh (kk)
- Greenlandic (kl)
- Kannada (kn)
- Korean (ko)
- Konkani (kok)
- Kurdish (ku)
- Kyrgyz (ky)
- Latin (la)
- Luxembourgish (lb)
- Lingua Franca Nova (lfn)
- Lithuanian (lt)
- Latgalian (ltg)
- Latvian (lv)
- Māori (mi)
- Macedonian (mk)
- Malayalam (ml)
- Marathi (mr)
- Malay (ms)
- Maltese (mt)
- Totontepec Mixe (mto)
- Myanmar (Burmese) (my)
- Norwegian Bokmål (nb)
- Nahuatl (Classical) (nci)
- Nepali (ne)
- Dutch (nl)
- Nogai (nog)
- Oromo (om)
- Oriya (or)
- Punjabi (pa)
- Papiamento (pap)
- Klingon (piqd)
- Polish (pl)
- Portuguese (Portugal) (pt)
- Portuguese (Brazil) (pt-br)
- Pyash (py)
- Lang Belta (qdb)
- Quechua (qu)
- K'iche' (quc)
- Quenya (qya)
- Romanian (ro)
- Russian (Classic) (ru-cl)
- Russian (Latvia) (ru-lv)
- Sindhi (sd)
- Shan (Tai Yai) (shn)
- Sinhala (si)
- Sindarin (sjn)
- Slovak (sk)
- Slovenian (sl)
- Lule Saami (smj)
- Albanian (sq)
- Serbian (sr)
- Swedish (sv)
- Swahili (sw)
- Tamil (ta)
- Telugu (te)
- Thai (th)
- Tigrinya (ti)
- Turkmen (tk)
- Setswana (tn)
- Turkish (tr)
- Tatar (tt)
- Uyghur (ug)
- Ukrainian (uk)
- Urdu (ur)
- Uzbek (uz)
- Vietnamese (Central) (vi-vn-x-central)
- Vietnamese (Southern) (vi-vn-x-south)