Blog about Pronunciation and Phonetic Transcription

Recently we added the support for bopomofo, also called zhuyin, in our online Pinyin converter. If you use bopomofo, you will probably want to adjust the relative size of transcription. You can do that by going to your account, clicking on “Customize my experience” and then adjusting the setting “Relative size of transcription”. At the… Continue reading Bopomofo (zhuyin) phonetic transcription in Pinyin converter

We are excited to announce that we released several updates in our online pronunciation trainer.

As you may know, our Russian phonetic translator uses a database with the stress positions in Russian words. If the database doesn’t have stress position for a particular word, it will not be converted. Well, now you can submit the stress position into the database yourself! Here’s how you can do it: Your correction will… Continue reading Error correction mode in Russian phonetic translator is back!

We updated the built-in dictionary in our Japanese kanji converter. Up until now only English translations of Japanese words were shown. The full list of translation languages now is listed below: The translations are taken from the free Japanese dictionary JMdict. Thank you to all the people who volunteer their time to update this dictionary!

We just updated our Chinese pinyin converter. The update includes: In the near future we plan to further improve the algorithm for splitting the Chinese text into words. We want to expand our database with more Chinese proper nouns, such as geographical terms and people names.

Sometimes people ask us about how the IPA phonetic translators work. Even for languages with relatively strict pronunciation rules, such as Spanish, the algorithm to obtain the phonetic transcription can be very complex. One reason for that is that the pronunciation of one letter can effect the pronunciation of the adjacent letters. This can happen… Continue reading How do phonetic converters work? It’s VERY complex!

We expanded the activity logs on EasyPronunciation.com Up until now in your profile you could see the logs for the following services: From now on, you can also see how you use the following services: To access your activity log, click on “My account” and then on “Activity Log”.

We are increasing the number of audio recordings available for free on EasyPronunciation.com. To view the full list of free audio recordings, please check the following links: We hope these audio recordings will help you improve your pronunciation.

We recently released some updates in our notes and notebooks. Here’s the summary: And another small update. Now you can adjust the color of the phonetic transcription, homographs, and pronunciation variants to your liking. Please go to “My account” -> “Customize my experience”.

I am glad to announce the release of the Russian and French versions of my YouTube video “Don’t use a dictionary when you learn a language”. In French: In Russian: A special thanks for my wife Tatiana who spent many-many hours editing the videos. I love you!