Pronunroid APK for Android

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Developer’s Description

Practice IPA transcriptions of English pronunciation anywhere!

Pronunroid is an educational game that makes practicing English phonetics more fun! It's aimed at practicing IPA (International Phonetics Alphabet) transcription of English words. It has three main parts:* Guess pronunciation: In this game you are presented with a written word and you have to write the pronunciation for it in IPA.* Guess spelling: In this game you are presented with the pronunciation of a word in IPA and you have to write the corresponding word. This, in addition to training your pronunciation skills, trains your spelling!* Look up word: This function looks up the IPA pronunciation of a word.Pronunroid is aimed at English as second language (ESL) learners. As there are many accents of English, different speakers use different pronunciations. Pronunroid uses General American accent. You can check out the symbols used at Wikitionary.Right now, Pronunroid uses for the games the 2000 most common English words. However, you can try to look up the pronunciation of any word with the search feature. If Wordnik is aware of different pronunciations, you will get them all.PERMISSIONSThe application requires access to Internet in order to download the pronunciations. It also sends anonymous statistics about its usage.Recent changes:v1.1- Pronunroid now speaks! In the look up word screen you can listen to the words. Notice that the transcription and the sound come from different sources, so they may not match- A bug when the connection to Internet failed in the look up word screen was fixedContent rating: Everyone