Google's pronunciation notation derives from standard phonetic systems.
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Available discussion indicates that Google's search pronunciation respelling is a custom system rather than one derived from standard phonetic systems.
# Where does Google's pronunciation notation come from?
Tags: english, phonology, phonetics, pronunciation, speech-synthesis
- Score: 7
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- Answers: 2
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- Asked by: user34327
- Asked: 2021-08-15
- Edited: 2021-08-15
- Site: linguistics
## Question
When you search for "X pronunciation" on Google, it shows the "Sounds like x·y·z" box with phonetic respelling. Does anyone know if this respelling system is based on a particular dictionary or established phonetic notation for British/American English?
## Answers
### Answer by Draconis (score: 7 [ACCEPTED])
It seems to be a custom system developed by Google. Wikipedia lists it as the "Google pronunciation dictionary" scheme in its table of pronunciation respellings.
In particular, Google spells the SQUARE vowel as ehr, which is not used in any other system in Wikipedia's table.
### Answer by user17892715 (score: 2)
I spent some time trying to find more information, but found nothing conclusive, not even in the Google speech-to-text or translation APIs.
I also found that the pronunciation respelling system described on Wikipedia doesn’t match Google’s results:
pronunciation
IPA:
prəˌnənsiˈeɪʃən
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