If you learn Chinese, you may have noticed how imperfect pinyin is as phonetic transcription system. Take the syllables “qiu” and “you”, for example. The final in both syllables is exactly the same, it is pronounced the same, but they are written differently. The same thing goes for the syllables like “wei” and “dui”. Or… Continue reading International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcription for Chinese
Month: March 2023
More than 130,000 words in our database for British English
We are happy to announce that we just released our updated database with pronunciations of words in British English. This is our biggest update for British English ever. The new database supports more than 130,000 unique English words. The pronunciation of each word was proofread manually! At the same time we updated the general algorithm… Continue reading More than 130,000 words in our database for British English