IPA to Speech (IPA Reader)

Type in the phonetic transcription (even for a made-up word) using the virtual IPA keyboard below and click Listen to generate and play the audio pronunciation. Make sure to select the correct language and only use the symbols from the keyboard.

If you don't hear any sound on your phone or tablet, you might have silent mode enabled. Note that it's not enough to just turn the volume up—you also need to turn off silent mode on your device.

Usage notes

The keyboard automatically adjusts to the selected language and shows its full phonemic inventory (set of supported input tokens for the TTS model). The keys also show example words for each phoneme for easy reference.

The staggered layout of the virtual keyboard makes it easy to find the symbols you need. It resembles the layout of a physical computer keyboard and prevents it from looking too patterned.

The naturalness of the output may vary. You can achieve better results with sequences of phonemes that are phonotactically typical for the selected language as opposed to, e.g., listening to single phonemes in isolation.

This tool uses Unicode IPA characters displayed with the browser's default sans-serif font.

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