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IPA Phonetic Lexicon (6.9M words)

  • This is an International Phonetic Language lexicon containing 6.9 million utterances across 350+ languages.
  • All speech files were converted into IPA using our neurlang/ipa-whisper-medium model.
  • Postprocessing to join multiword IPA into single-word IPA record for single-word headwords was performed for appropriate languages.

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Stats

  • Total words: 6908075
  • Countries: 211
  • Languages: 356
  • Unique Speakers: 81756
  • Gender Ratio M/F: 4802600/2083464

Data Format

  • JSONL/ZST
{
  "language": "en",
  "headword": "café",
  "query_word": "caf%C3%A9",
  "votes": 6,
  "origin": ["user", "male", "united kingdom"],
  "download_url": "...",
  "is_ogg": false,
  "id": 55272,
  "ipa": "kafˈe"
}

Quality scoring (votes)

words votes
6470891 0
324214 1
44413 2
14218 3
6491 4
3552 5
2143 6
1392 7
956 8
635 9
1762 10+
  • Votes represent community confidence in pronunciation accuracy
  • Recommended filter: votes ≥ 1 for high-quality subset
  • Negative votes are also present (not shown above)
  • In the future other quality metrics (CER w.r.t. grammar) will be added

⚠️ Limitations

  • Speaker distribution is highly uneven across countries
  • Some languages are overrepresented (e.g. English, Spanish)
  • Country labels/languages may be inacurrate for some users (e.g. Antartica)
  • Audio quality varies by contributor
  • IPA generation is model-derived (not manually verified)
  • Regional dialect distinctions may be blurred
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