Author: Timur

This is an update of the situation with our payment provider Stripe. Two weeks ago we experienced a fraudulent activity on our website. The attacker bought the most expensive subscription 1,055 times using one single card. The Stripe’s system didn’t find it suspicious that there were 1,055 different billing addresses for the same card. Note… Continue reading Update from Stripe

Hello everyone! Last week, we experienced a successful attack on our payment system. At the present moment, I can’t share a lot of details because I want to give our payment provider Stripe a chance to deal with the situation. I’ll just tell you that it is very, very serious to the point that we… Continue reading An attack on our payment system

During the last weeks we’ve been working hard on our Word Frequency Counters. Here’s the list of the most important updates so far: – We increased the number of frequency intervals from 5 to 10. Now the counter will highlight in different colors the 10,000 most frequently used words. – For English, French, and Italian… Continue reading We are updating the word frequency counters

We have great news for people who learn Spanish. Miguel Lescano authorized us to use his Spanish word frequency list SpanishInput on EasyPronunciation.com. It’s available in:

On Saturday we released several updates. Here’s the summary:

Up until now the only way how unstressed retroflex schwa sound could be displayed in our English phonetic translator was /ɚ/. In Unicode this symbol is called “schwa with hook”. For stressed retroflex sound there were two options: One of our users mentioned that the official IPA versions with diacritic /ɜ˞/ and /ə˞/ were missing… Continue reading Stressed and unstressed retroflex schwa sound in American English

I love learning foreign languages. There are so many beautiful and exciting things going on while you learn to speak and understand a language that is not your mother tongue. We all know that it takes time to really master a language. In this short post, I want to discuss a little bit how you… Continue reading Learn a language and stay healthy

Recently I discovered a very interesting youtuber and phonetician Dr. Geoff Lindsey. If you are interested in English phonetics, I highly recommend subscribing to his channel. In his video “Schwa is never stressed” – FALSE he talks about the schwa /ə/ sound. His suggests that in American English it should be the only phoneme for… Continue reading Stressed schwa sound in American English

Last month, we created detailed tutorials that explain how to use our IPA phonetic translators. Each phonetic translator on our website is unique. So the tutorial for our English phonetic translator is obviously different from the tutorial for our Japanese phonetic translator. Most of the tutorials include the following sections:

We are excited to announce that we just released the option that allows to edit transcription of the words. Right now it is only available in our English phonetic translator. The option allows you to do two things: In the latter case, you will need to go to your account, click on “Customize my experience”… Continue reading Edit transcription option arrives on EasyPronunciation.com for now in beta