A set of IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) symbols for English
It is important to note that the pronunciation given here applies ONLY to ‘Standard English
English’ – roughly the dialect of English spoken by middle-class people in the south-east of
England.
Other dialects of English, including American dialects, have different phones, especially vowels.
IPA    SEE Examples           ASCII   Selected Phonetic Features
[i]    heel, me               IY      {vowel, voiced}
[I]    hit                    IH      {vowel, voiced}
[E]    met, head              EH      {vowel, voiced}
[Q]    hat                    AE      {vowel, voiced}
[´]    about, after, fern     AX      {vowel, voiced}
[√]    up, fun                UX      {vowel, voiced}
[u]    soon                   UW      {vowel, voiced}
[U]    put, foot              UH      {vowel, voiced}
[ç]    fork, taut             AO      {vowel, voiced}
[Å]    hot                    OH      {vowel, voiced}
[A]    bath, bar              AH      {vowel, voiced}
[eI]   wait, cake             EI      {vowel, voiced}
[aI]   kite, buy              AY      {vowel, voiced}
[çI]   coin, toy              OY      {vowel, voiced}
[oU]   bone, open             OU      {vowel, voiced}
[aU]   cow, out               AW      {vowel, voiced}
[I´]   ear, sheer             IA      {vowel, voiced}
[E´]   air, share             EA      {vowel, voiced}
[U´]   tour                   UA      {vowel, voiced}
[p]    pin, spin              p       {stop, bilabial, voiceless}
[b]    boo                    b       {stop, bilabial, voiced}
[t]    top, stop              t       {stop, alveolar, voiceless}
[d]    dog                    d       {stop, alveolar, voiced}
[k]    can, scan              k       {stop, velar, voiceless}
[g]    gate                   g       {stop, velar, voiced}
[m]    mat                    m       {nasal, bilabial, voiced}
[n]    not                    n       {nasal, alveolar, voiced}
[N]    king                   NG      {nasal, velar, voiced}
[f]    fat                    f       {fricative, labiodental, voiceless}
[v]    vat                    v       {fricative, labiodental, voiced}
[T]    thumb                  TH      {fricative, dental, voiceless}
[D]    that                   DH      {fricative, dental, voiced}
[s]    sat                    s       {fricative, alveolar, voiceless}
[z]    zip                    z       {fricative, alveolar, voiced}
[S]    mesh        SH   {fricative, palatal, voiceless}
[Z]    measure     ZH   {fricative, palatal, voiced}
[h]    hot         h    {fricative, glottal}
[tS]   chair       CH   {affricative, palatal, voiceless}
[dZ]   edge, jam   JH   {affricative, palatal, voiced}
[l]    lot         l    {approximant, voiced}
[r]    rot         r    {approximant, voiced}
[j]    yawn        y    {approximant, voiced}
[w]    win         w    {approximant, voiced}