Speakeasy Is this an IPA keyboard?
Yes — every symbol is a key. Click it and the character is copied to your clipboard, ready to paste into a report, a transcription or a search box. Nothing to install, no phonetic keyboard layout to set up, and it behaves the same on a phone as on a desktop.
Can I hear the IPA sounds?
Many symbols have a recording and are shown underlined; clicking one plays the sound as well as copying the symbol. The speaker button at the top turns audio off. Practice further down can play a sound and ask you to name the symbol.
How do I read the tables?
Consonant columns run front to back through the mouth, bilabial to glottal; rows run down the manners of articulation. Where two symbols share a cell, the right-hand one is voiced, and shaded cells mark articulations judged impossible. The vowel figure is a side view of the mouth with the lips at the left: height is tongue height, left to right is how far forward the tongue sits, and paired symbols differ in lip rounding, unrounded first.
Why do slashes and square brackets mean different things?
Slashes mark a broad, phonemic transcription: only the contrasts that matter in the language, as in /kat/. Square brackets mark a narrow, phonetic one, with diacritics recording how the sound was actually produced, as in [kʰat].
Where do the recordings come from?
Wikimedia Commons contributors, under CC BY-SA 3.0; the credits file lists each one. Not every symbol has one yet. Nothing on this page is fetched from a third party, so it loads behind school and NHS filtering.