Educational Resources
The Department has been highly rated for the quality of its teaching. These educational reviews and lessons may interest students of Phonetics, Linguistics and the English Language.
English Grammar for Schools |
Estuary English |
Word Grammar
The Department has been involved in a number of funded projects concerned with education in Phonetics and Speech Communication. These projects and other work have led to some teaching materials that are accessible over the web: the Web Tutorials offered below. If you complete a tutorial, please take the time to send us your comments.
Phonetics |
Hearing |
Math |
Create Your Own
Phonetic Fonts
IPA Fonts
The IPA-SAM fonts are a set of TrueType fonts suitable for MS Windows applications that include all current IPA symbols. The keyboard layout is designed to be compatible with SAMPA.
SAMPA–SAM Phonetic Alphabet
SAMPA is a phonetic transcription coding that uses normal ASCII characters as replacements for IPA symbols. It has been designed for phonemic/broad phonetic transcription of European languages.
Guide to Using Phonetic Symbols in Unicode
If you can't install fonts, or you want maximum compatibility, you'll need to use the Phonetic symbols in the Unicode character set. This page explains how you can do this.
We offer a variety of software for analysing sounds and signals, displaying waveforms and spectra, synchronising display and audio, storing and analysing speech data, and much more. Learn more...
Data
Anechoic Chamber
The following are compilations of speech data which are available for researchers and students:
UCL Speaker Database
Includes a high-quality recordings of a wide range of speech materials (from words to spontaneous speech) for a set of 45 speakers (women, men and children) from a homogenous regional accent group.
EUROM
A spoken language resource for the EU. It comprises spoken language corpora, a transcription protocol, the definition of a standard speech workstation, and a suite of speech software tools.
Available from our Listening Centre:
Sounds of the IPA on CD/Cassette/CD-ROM
A demonstration of ALL the sounds on the current IPA Chart on CD, audio cassette or new interactive CD-ROM!
IPA Sounds in a Clinical Context Audio CD
Ear-training material in the context of "non-standard" pronunciations of English words and phrases, on audio CD.
Tapes for practical phonetics study