Every writing system represents speech a little differently, and no system is completely faithful to how words are actually pronounced. For over a century, the International Phonetic Alphabet has ...

many languages in the world, and the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is defined to describe the pronunciation of every language in the world. In the ' IPA Chart ', you can hear the actual ...

Google Translate added a few features to its main web home, including instant translations as you type. What's really helpful is a bit more tucked away: phonetic pronunciations for non-Roman alphabets ...

We learn about 6 vowel letters and the numerous sounds we make when using them. In English, we have 5 (well, sometimes 6) vowel letters, but way more vowel sounds. That’s where the IPA can help us! We ...

Getting Siri to pronounce a complex or foreign-sounding name can be a challenge. Why? Because Siri’s method of determining how to pronounce proper names depends on your device’s system language. In ...

We begin our discussion of phonetics, the study of speech sounds. The letters in a word don’t always match the sounds they represent, and people can pronounce words in different ways. We begin our ...

As a person with a funkily spelled last name, at least for English speakers, I appreciate that Siri tries to say my name, but I never really assumed she could pronounce it correctly. If you’re having ...