IPA Help is an easy, fast, and clear phonetic program for beginner language learners. It is divided into sections that show vowels, consonants, diacritics, suprasegmentals, articulators, and places of articulation. Sounds can be played, and the user can record themselves for pronunciation practice. Interactive tables allow listening, repeating, and recording individual consonant sounds. Buttons allow manipulating sound samples. Vowels are visually presented with mouseovers to play sounds. Diacritics and suprasegmentals are shown with symbols, explanations, and sample contexts. Articulators and places of articulation are pictured. Samples compare words across languages. Tests identify sounds in words. The program can be downloaded

1. IPA Help
Lorena Rafael Rodríguez

3. IPA Help, is a phonetic program for
beginner learnes
Easy
Fast
Clear

4. Easy to use
Divided into different sections
Showing basic elements
Vowels
Consonants
Diacritics
Suprasegmentals
Articulator
Place of Articulation

5. Vowels & Consonants
Presented in an Interactive way
Visual explanation of their main features
Play sounds
Record yourself to test your pronunciation

6. Interactive Consonant table
You can manage to listen, repeat and record each
sound

7. To begin
Easy bottons
You can find at the top these bottons to manipulate the sounds
of the consonants.
Vowels
Consonants
Diacritics
Suprasegmental

8. Especial Bottons
Sound in Context
Compare the original
sound with your
recording

9. Vowels
Visually clear
Place the mouse
above the phonetic
symbol and you can
listen the sound
Using the bottons
mentioned before,
you can record yoursel

10. Diacritics & Suprasegmental
These especial features of phonetics are presented
in a table showing:
-symbol
-explanation
-name
This feature can be listened in a context.

11. Articulator & Place of Articulation
A picture is presented to place each articulato and also the
part in which the sounds take place.
This is not an
interactive part,
but a theoretical one.

12. Sample
In the section of Sample, you can compare and analyze
different languages.
It appears a table divided into three colums:
Phonetic, Gloss and Dialect
The word is transcribed and you can listen how it is
pronounced. This word is explained in English. The dialect of
this word appears in the third colum.

13. Test yourself
1 It is presented 6 phonetics lists
2 A word is pronounced
3 Enter what you can hear
4 Verify your answer

14. How to download
Go to http://www.sil.org/
Select software
Go to support
Now choose IPA Help: a window with the current information
and a brief description is showed.
Press the buton IPA Help downloads
A new window appears showing three options: System
Requirements, Dowload and Keyman. (make sure you have all
the requirements)
In Download, IPA Help appears in blue in the first step to
download the program, press it.

15. How to download
A new window will open, asking you if you want to use it or
keep it.
-Use it, the proccess of the program downloading appears
-Keep it, a window to specify where to keep the program
appears before the one showing the process of downloading
Once completed, you can open the field
Now, you will be guided in this process
(several windows asking you information about the file to keep
the program, the rules and regulations appear in this process.
Only press Next to continue and Finish to start using IPA Help)