Month: December 2017

We added the support for connected speech in Spanish phonetic translator. Here are few examples of the phonetic transcriptions obtained with this new option: tu universidad tu.ni.βɛɾ.si.ˈðað  (connected speech) tu u.ni.βɛɾ.si.ˈðað está aquí ɛs.ˈta.ˈki  (connected speech) ɛs.ˈta a.ˈki

We are releasing the beta version of Portuguese phonetic translator. At first, I was inspired by this IPA converter for Portuguese. I started testing it with the phonetic transcriptions from the book The Phonology of Portuguese. And I wasn’t really satisfied with the results. Our Portuguese phonetic translator right now gives the comparable results. During… Continue reading Beta version of Portuguese phonetic translator released

During the last week I made a lot of changes in the algorithm of the Spanish phonetic translator. Most of the changes are based on the book Manual de fonética y fonología españolas. That includes: better support for Spanish allophones, yeísmo (when the words “callo” and “cayo” are pronounced the same), splitting the words into syllables,… Continue reading Updates in Spanish phonetic translator

If you use our Japanese phonetic converter, you may have noticed a lot of changes recently. The most important one is that now it shows the inflected word forms of the verbs and adjectives as single words. Before they were split into meaningless pieces, such as “食べ” “まし” “た”. What will be really cool about… Continue reading More updates in Japanese kanji converter