Re: Diving In...

From: "Almaran Dungeonmaster" <dungeonmaster@...>
> In addition, I am still not sure how many of the phonetic charcters are
> pronounced. If have been trying to find out physically, but my parents
> almost called the guys with the straightjackets to come and pick me up for
> the weird sounds I was producing.
>
> I want to be able to translate sentences from Dutch, English or just sounds
> I think of into phonetic spelling. Does anyone know of a resource on the net
> were I could get more info on the pronounciation of these?
There is a program called "IPA Help" available for Windows at
http://www.sil.org/computing/speechtools/ipahelp.htm
which takes the IPA chart and has clickable symbols that make their sound (for
vowels, the sound alone; for consonants, your choice of the sound followed by
/a/ vowel or between two of them).

The more popular IPA > ASCII transcription lately is X-SAMPA, at:
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/sampa/x-sampa.htm
(The full version of which is in the PDF file link at the top of the page)

A sample of SAMPAfication of Dutch phonemes is on this page:
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/sampa/dutch.htm

And for English English:
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/sampa/english.htm
American English here:
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/sampa/american.htm

    *Muke!

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