Type or paste English text and the American IPA transcription appears under every word. The text is converted in your browser and never sent to a server.
01English text
02Phonemic transcription
Loading the pronunciation dictionary…
Type English text and the IPA appears under each word.
American English (CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, first listed pronunciation of each word). Words not in the dictionary are underlined with dots and have no IPA; in the copied or saved IPA they appear as ⟨spelling⟩, and so do numbers.
How to use it
- Type or paste English text in “01 English text”, up to 10,000 characters.
- In “02 Phonemic transcription”, each word appears with its IPA underneath. Paragraphs and punctuation are kept.
- Copy or save the result as a TXT file, either IPA only or each line of text followed by its IPA. “Send to IPA keyboard” opens the IPA keyboard with the IPA so you can keep editing it.
cat → /kæt/ · hello → /həˈloʊ/ · education → /ˌɛdʒəˈkeɪʃən/
Transcription notes
Pronunciations are American English from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. The stress mark ˈ comes before the syllable with the main stress and ˌ before one with secondary stress; one-syllable words carry none. Each word gets one dictionary pronunciation, so words that change with meaning (present and past “read”) and the weak forms of function words in a sentence (of, to) are not told apart.