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IPA Trainer - Helping you practice and transcribe phonetics

Most popular consonant tables:
   Practice or transcribe All characters (Rasmus Rimestad) - 7006800 visits
   Practice or transcribe 9a (Claire Timmins) - 1239492 visits
   Practice or transcribe English (Rasmus Rimestad) - 872743 visits
   Practice or transcribe Bsc1 IPA (Claire Timmins) - 788931 visits
   Practice or transcribe American English (Yasuo Nakajima) - 781393 visits
   Practice or transcribe Occitan (Daniela Müller) - 660218 visits
   Practice or transcribe Australian English... (Catherine Easton) - 578431 visits
   Practice or transcribe Deutsch (Simone Falk) - 475591 visits
   Practice or transcribe British English Cons... (Carolin Esser) - 425869 visits
   Practice or transcribe LING201 (Andrew Carnie) - 291689 visits

Most popular vowel trapeziums:
   Practice or transcribe All vowels (Rasmus Rimestad) - 393824 visits
   Practice or transcribe English vowels (Cindy Blanco) - 151643 visits
   Practice or transcribe Vowels (Michael Kiefte) - 144913 visits
   Practice or transcribe Deutsch (Simone Falk) - 143243 visits
   Practice or transcribe American English vow... (Heidi Lorimor) - 98377 visits
   Practice or transcribe English 1104/2104 Vo... (Christophe dos Santos) - 83780 visits
   Practice or transcribe Occitan (Daniela Müller) - 79755 visits
   Practice or transcribe Australian English v... (Andrea Schalley) - 75478 visits
   Practice or transcribe LING201 (Andrew Carnie) - 63404 visits
   Practice or transcribe PLA2 (Andy) - 58968 visits

Phonetics is the study of the sounds of human speech. This site aims at helping people interested in phonetics to practice and transcribe the characters of the IPA. The site also includes the IPA Writer, which is an immensely valuable tool which can be used to transcribe and For discussing phonetics or other linguistics, we provide the IPA Forum.

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Since all the symbols in the IPA are not relevant to all languages, IPA Trainer offers the opportunity for anyone to register and customise their own IPA table(s) and then practice them themselves, or direct their students to those/that table(s).

If you want an introduction to customising your own IPA table, click here

If you want to practice IPA characters, you have the following opportunities:
  • If a teacher gave you a username...
    The URL to directly access it is http://www.ipatrainer.com/?username where "username" has to be replaced with your lecturer's username. To go directly there, enter his/her username in the text box below, and click OK:

    Enter the username here to access his/her page:

  • If you forgot your teacher's username...
    Please enter parts of or the entire name of him/her below, and click "Search".

    Name:

  • If no one you know of has created an IPA table for you to practice...
    You can search for consonant tables. To search for table, enter something you are searching for in the text box below:

    Consonant table:
    Vowel trapezium:
    Or you can register and customise your own IPA table. To register, click here





This system was programmed by Rasmus Rimestad 2008