Umuntu Ngumuntu Ngabantu

Forward, NY

I addressed the question to her, and here is part of her answer: The Vietnamese 'ng' is most probably a legacy from 17th-century Portuguese Jesuit missionary-philologists who undertook to devise a phonetic alphabet for Vietnamese, called quoc ngu. ...

On the Beat with PC Martin Hudd

Bristol Evening Post, UK

When I joined the force I knew I would be expected to learn the phonetic alphabet off by heart, you know the one: A for Alpha, C for Charlie, Z for Zulu. After all, most professions like ourselves and the military have used this for years. ...

kid cops form police academy on streets of Belmont

Your Local Guardian, UK

During the first two sessions, the nine- to 10 year old boys and girls have made warrant cards, heard about the history of the police, identified badges of rank and learn the phonetic alphabet . PC Carpenter said: It'sa chance for the youngsters to ...

where can i find international phonetic alphabet with audio ?
Q. i like to find a phonetic alphabet table that when i click on the letters i can hear the voice of each letter .
Asked by Farzaneh H - Thu Apr 10 04:36:08 2008 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments

A. i hope this will help you out !!
Answered by Dodo - Fri Apr 11 17:34:00 2008

What is the best way to teach myself IPA?
Q. I am studying voice, and as a student of voice, I must take four semesters of diction classes (one each for English, Italian, French, and German). Since I know all of these languages already, I think this is somewhat unnecessary. All I really need to learn is how to apply the International Phonetic Alphabet to these languages. I would like to teach myself IPA so I can test out of these classes. What book, website, or program should I use to learn IPA, and what are good review methods?
Asked by bisous148 - Fri Mar 2 16:10:19 2007 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments

A. I took a Phonetics course at UVM. We used the text "A Course in Phonetics" by Peter Ladefoged. I guess he is basically the leader in phonetic advances and transcriptions. The book is pretty helpful, and obviously includes description of symbols used in languages other than English... Good luck!
Answered by Kourtney cheer - Fri Mar 2 16:16:23 2007

Voice Synthesizer for the IPA?
Q. I'm looking for a voice synthesizer that allows for the input of a string of IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) characters and their pronunciation together, as in it would pronounce "you" if I typed in /ju/, or "you geek" if I typed in /'ju gi:k/. I want it to be useful for other languages as well, so it would pronounce "qaqambile" as /|| || m 'bi le/. I've found plenty of good applets for the individual sounds online, so please don't send me any of those. I've found plenty of applets that produce all the sounds individually, so please don't share any of those with me. Also, no programs or sites that take English (or other individual languages) and convert them to IPA or pronounce them. Thanks in advance.
Asked by ndrw3987 - Fri Mar 2 19:08:23 2007 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments

A. I don't think such a synthesizer exists, simply because the IPA doesn't provide all the information that one would need to synthesize speech. IPA doesn't generally encode prosodic information such as stress. So you would get a string of individual sounds, but you wouldn't get a real-sounding word. In addition, the actual acoustic properties of sounds represented by certain IPA characters are actually relative to whatever language you are transcribing. For example, both Spanish and English have voiced and unvoiced stops, but the Voice Onset Time in Spanish for unvoiced stops is generally less than in English, as I recall. In other words, a Spanish [t], for example, is not really the same as an English [t], even though they are… [cont.]
Answered by drshorty - Fri Mar 2 22:30:40 2007