If you have a rhotic accent, you pronounce the /r/ sound whenever the letter 'r' appears in a word, like in 'learn', 'better' and 'perfect'. North American accents are usually rhotic, and other ...

In fact, any letter representing a vowel sound can be pronounced as schwa. For example, the first vowel in the word 'connect' is a schwa sound but it's written with the letter 'o', and the second ...

As St. Patrick’s Day approaches, you might hear an unfamiliar Irish term get tossed around before the pints get tossed back. Sláinte is a classic Irish toast, and in true St. Paddy’s Day fashion, ...

This project aims to provide a series of dictionaries consisting of wordlists with accompanying phonemic pronunciation information in International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcription for as many ...

Abstract: The current pronunciation scoring based on Goodness of Pronunciation (GOP) uses posterior probabilities of the Acoustic Models. Such algorithms suffer from generalization since they are ...

This pronunciation guide has been developed by USP and approved by the USAN Council to facilitate pronunciation of USAN, and was revised at the USAN Council meeting, June 13, 2025, to facilitate ...