Apple messages online. I have been away from this blog for a little while now while I get to grips with the additional workload of a Masters degree on top of 25 hours of teaching a week. Still haven’t come up with a new name for the blog yet but hope that will get rolled out in the coming week as well… not that much of this is concern to any of you fine people reading this. Just thought I’d get my ‘housekeeping’ out of the way first. 🙂
Phonetizer uses IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) to add British and American English transcription to English texts. Additional Information. Phonetizer is loading. Please, wait. Phonetizer is software for Windows, Mac OS X and the web that easily and quickly adds phonetic British or American English transcription to any English text. The Windows version of Phonetizer also allows you to listen to any English text with the help of the built-in text-to-speech component.
I’ll be publishing a more substantial post soon on a short exam preparation exercise but in the meantime I just wanted to draw people’s attention to this website.
Quite simply this is Google Translate for phonetics. Just type (or copy and paste) text into the left box, click transcribe at the top and the English IPA translation will appear on the right-hand side. Without a doubt, a very useful tool!
If you are following Nik Peachey (and you really should be) then you have probably already seen this website recommended on his blog, Nik’s Quickshout. I just thought that I would pass along the knowledge to a few more people who might not yet be following him.
P.S. I was at the English UK conference a couple of weekends ago, in which Nik, Luke Meddings, Sam McCarter and many others were presenting. The closing plenary was by Professor Mike McCarthy and focused on building on corpus linguistic data to help teachers and assessors understand more about what various English levels actually mean. His talk was insightful and thought-provoking as he started to map the findings onto the CEFR. It motivated me to write up this small question to learners on my learners’ blog, “Are you ready for intermediate level English?” Follow the link and have a read through. There might be a few useful questions to pose to your own students this week.
One of the most difficult things about learning a language is its phonetics. Unlike other languages that have pronunciation rules, the English language has very few pronunciation rules and lots of exceptions. More fonts for mac. Knowing the International Phonetic Alphabet can help you pronounce words correctly.
Phonetizer is a little tool that transcribes English texts into the International Phonetic Alphabet. Phonetizeris very easy to use. It has two panels: in the first one, you write or paste the text and then click “Transcribe” and in the second panel you will get the transcription. In this second panel you can also select a word or a phrase and click “Speak” for the software to read your selected words or phrases.
Wanna have a laugh? Try to guess the answers to these jokes. They are written with phonetic symbols using the International Phonetic Alphabet. (answers below)
1. Nothing. It just waved!
2. Because he had no body to go with.
3. Because it had a virus.
Blog de Cristina is also on Facebook
Phonetic Spelling Converter Names
Related posts: