Ipa Reader

IPA Reader - Smart IPA Phonetic Annotations for English Web Pages

Stop breaking your reading flow to check pronunciation and meaning. IPA Reader combines reading, listening, translation, and practice in one workflow.
Built for academic papers, technical docs, news, and original books.

✨ Key Features:
• IPA pronunciation (American & British) for English words on web pages
• WordNet hover dictionary with 82K word definitions
• Three hover modes: Dictionary, Tooltip, Off
• Whole-page IPA mode — show all transcriptions at once
• Built-in PDF Reader with IPA annotations
• Auto-intercept web PDFs — open online PDFs with IPA overlay
• Text-to-speech with karaoke-style word highlighting
• American and British accent options; adjustable speech rate
• Instant translation of selected text (Bing & Google Translate)
• 108 target languages; inline translation bubble with copy button
• Right-click menu and keyboard shortcuts for quick access
• American dictionary: 134K words (CMU)
• Enhanced British dictionary: 67K+ words (Britfone + Wiktionary)

🔊 Text-to-Speech:
• Single word — click the speaker button to hear pronunciation
• Selection speech — select text, floating toolbar or Alt+Shift+S
• Karaoke effect — words highlight one by one as they are spoken

🌐 Translation:
• Select any text and click translate or press Alt+Shift+T
• Bing Translate and Google Translate engines
• 108 target languages available

⌨️ Keyboard Shortcuts:
• Alt+Shift+I — Toggle IPA annotations on/off
• Alt+Shift+S — Speak selected text
• Alt+Shift+T — Translate selected text

📄 PDF Reader:
• Built-in PDF viewer with IPA for English text
• Show or hide IPA annotations with the toolbar toggle
• Auto-intercept online PDFs in the browser
• Click words for dictionary lookup (WordNet)
• Sidebar: outline / thumbnails and page navigation
• Search inside PDFs
• Three themes: dark, light, sepia
• Drag & drop local PDFs or paste URLs

📚 Perfect for:
• English learners reading web pages and PDFs
• Learning American vs British pronunciation
• Vocabulary and dictionary look-ups while reading
• Sentence reading practice with TTS
• Quick translation without leaving the page

🔒 Privacy: No data collection. Translation text is sent to third-party APIs (Bing/Google) only when you use the translate feature. All other processing is local.