English Phonetic Symbols app for iPhone and iPad
4.6 (
6496 ratings )
Reference
Education
Developer:
世木 林
Free
Current version:
3.7, last update: 1 year ago
First release : 06 Sep 2012
App size: 101.42 Mb
This is the standard set of phonetic symbols for English
1 48 English IPA contains each phonetic pronunciation
2 An example of the pronunciation of words and sentences.
3 America and British accent
4 iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch resolutions HD Retina graphics.
Details:
. Continous play from any choice phonetic (last phonetic pronunciation).
. Timing off function, you can always open before going to bed!
. US-British tone tone freedom of choice.
. Additional phonetic learning: phonetic form, learning methods, knowledge of English phonetics.
. Massive words, phrases, sentences and pronunciation mouth, bilingual.
. Click on any phonetic, can pronounce the word phrase.
. Detailed, streamlined mode selection, adapt to different levels of English learners needs.
. Headphone remote control function:
Press Back, Forward buttons: Play previous phonetic
Press Pause or Play button: Play next phonetic
Pros and cons of English Phonetic Symbols app for iPhone and iPad
English Phonetic Symbols app good for
Big help with pronunciation, but it would be more helpful to English too.
Extremely handy!! B4 I got ma hands on it , I barely understood d difference between i & I sound at all , be it hearing or saying , I failed in both . Now I can differentiate. And its very well said that " if one cant hear d sound , might not even say it ...
All ReadingのRepeat Playは、6分程で途切れてしまい、再起動出来ません。
解説を日本語でして欲しい。
Some bad moments
Foot and classroom are not pronounced the same, yet this app says they are, and even in their audio examples you can hear the difference. (Written by a native speaker of proper English, and a linguistics major)
There was no way to distinguish some of the characters and some were not even there. [I], [^^], [-u-] ect. Dont recommend it.
This app has potential, but some of the sounds are just plain wrong, like the /r/ and /l/. I pity the English Language Learners who are trying to learn them. I would love to use it for speech therapy, but only some of the sounds work. App support isnt in English, so I couldnt email them. Use "sounds: the pronunciation app" instead. Its free.
I am studying the sounds and this app helped me in such cases thanks a lot for making this app free
Found some misspellings in the example words; also some of the sound files seem to be missing for the female voice. Also the male voice file for the long u sound (close back unrounded vowel) is wrong!
Im sure the app is wonderful for people who know Japanese, but you really need to mention this little fact in the App Store description.
