toPhonetics Converter for Android

11 things about toPhonetics Converter

1. - The structure of the text and sentences in it (line breaks, punctuation marks, etc.) is preserved in phonetic transcription output making it easier to read.

2. Got an English text and want to see how to pronounce it? This app will turn your English text into its phonetic transcription using International Phonetic Alphabet.

3. - See phonetic transcription of the whole text, not just the dictionary forms of separate words.

4. - You can output the text and its phonetic transcription along each other line-by-line to make back-reference to the original text easier.

5. When British dialect is selected the [r] sound at the end of the word is only voiced if followed by a vowel, which follows British phonetic convention.

6. - Double-tap a word to open it in the built-in dictionary; if the word has multiple pronunciations you'll see the list of them first.

7. - Let the built-in speech synthesiser read your text out loud.

8. - Where a word has a number of possible pronunciations (highlighted in blue in the output) you can select the one that agrees with the context by tapping on it.

9. - In addition to commonly used vocabulary the database contains a very substantial amount of place names (including names of countries, their capitals, US states, UK counties), nationalities and popular names.

10. Control the playback and follow IPA transcription of the current word with a highlight.

11. - An option to vary pronunciation depending on whether words are in stressed or weak position in the sentence, as in connected speech.