B. Online Phonetics Courses and tutorials
To expand the educational content of the Association’s webpage and to meet the demands from people who are not in a position to take a regular phonetics course and want to teach themselves, as well as beginner students interested in self-study, we provide links to the following tutorials and self-study courses.
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The IPA is grateful to the members of the Education Committee who compiled many of these links and added their comments.
B.1 Standalone self-study tools
- Resources to learn the sounds of the International Phonetic Alphabet, University of Sheffield
https://walkergareth.github.io/learnipa/ - Course materials by Robert Mannell and Felicity Cox, Macquarie University. Including Phonetics and Phonology, speech acoustics, speech physiology and Australian accents.
https://www.mq.edu.au/faculty-of-medicine-health-and-human-sciences/depa... - Phonetics: An interactive introduction. An introductory phonetics course with interactive displays, University of New England.
https://australianlinguistics.com/ - A stand-alone course on phonetics by Kevin Russell, University of Manitoba, 2005.
http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~krussll/phonetics/index.html - Phonetics workbook by Keith Johnson, University of California, Berkeley. Collection of interactive on-line exercises for self-study and to accompany college textbooks.
http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~kjohnson/phonwork - Phonetics Tutorials from University College London by John Maidment. Tutorials on voicing, VOT, plosives, and phonetic transcription (Phonetic Flash). The other links are broken or not being maintained.
https://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/resource/tutorials.html - Stand-alone courses in Speech Sciences, Phonetics, Experimental Phonetics and Web Programming for research in phonetics and psychology, UCL Psychology and Language Sciences.
https://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/resource/courses.php - Informative tutorial on voice production, from the National Center for Voice and Speech
https://ncvs.org/tutorials/ - Phonetics website by Sidney Wood. It includes informative sections on historical phonetics, articulation, basic acoustic concepts, and description and data on regional varieties of British English
https://swphonetics.com/ - Transcription tutorial of English texts accompanied by sound files and British phonemic transcription, by John Maidment
http://blogjam.name/paratrans/ - Website to practice phonological transcription by Paul Carley. You can listen to the recordings and check the parallel transcription. The author provides useful notes
https://paulcarleypronunciation.blogspot.com/ - Tutorials on English intonation by John Maidment. Tutorials on identifying the tonic syllable (tonicity) and tone.
- Place the Tonic (PLATO). Interactive practice material to identify the tonic syllable in English utterances
http://blogjam.name/plato/ - Interactive practice material to identify British English nuclear tones
http://blogjam.name/newton/index.htm - Online intonation (OI). Interactive practice material to identify intonation patterns in English utterances
http://blogjam.name/oi/
- Place the Tonic (PLATO). Interactive practice material to identify the tonic syllable in English utterances
- Informative videos by Matthew Winn, University of Minnesota, on
- speech acoustics and speech communication
- the physics of sound
- hearing and the perception of sound
- speech perception
- An online course on transcribing prosody with ToBI
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/...
Standalone courses in languages other than English
- Course on spectrogram reading in German (see further chapters by clicking through the other pages at the bottom). Institut für Phonetik und Sprachliche Kommunikation, Universität München.
https://www.phonetik.uni-muenchen.de/studium/skripten/SGL/SGLKap1.html#Gem
B.2 Phonetics coursebooks with online materials
- Online materials that accompany P. Ladefoged & S. Disner’s Vowels and Consonants. 3rd edition
http://www.vowelsandconsonants3e.com/index.html - P. Ladefoged & K. Johnson’s A Course in Phonetics. 7th edition
https://corpus.linguistics.berkeley.edu/acip/ - P. Ladefoged’s A Course in Phonetics
http://www.phonetics.ucla.edu/course/contents.html - Online exercises to accompany E. Zsiga’s The Sounds of Language: An Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology
http://bcs.wiley.com/he-bcs/Books?action=resource&bcsId=7759&itemId=1405...
Last updated: March 2025.
