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Teaching Word Pronunciation Demonstration
 

E-Speech has adapted its letter-to-phoneme rules to a web-based system that teaches you how to read and pronounce English words and names. Our software shows you the pronunciation rules for any word or name you enter, and it also shows the phonetic transcription, and speaks the word.

Here is an example.

If the learner has typed in the word neighbor, here is what our system outputs:

Word: neighbor
neighbor
   Pronunciation Rule: n -> n               More words and exceptions
   Pronunciation Rule: eigh ->               More words and exceptions
   Pronunciation Rule: b -> b               More words and exceptions
   Pronunciation Rule: or -> ɔ:r; Unstressed ɔ:r > ɚ                More words and exceptions

Pronunciation: 'neɪ bɚ
Syllable-by-Syllable 'neɪ bɚ



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