Transcriber

Phonetic transcription of web pages.

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Transcriber Chrome Extension - Phonetic Transcription of Web Pages

Transcriber is a Chrome extension that replaces words on a web page with their phonetic transcription using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). It helps users learn correct pronunciation and practice language skills. Users can also listen to the pronunciation of transcribed words and get support through the extension's telegram channel.

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By: https://unih.net

Users: 1,000+

Rating: 4.36

(11)

0.06

Version: 1.9.0 (Last updated: 2024-09-30)

Creation date: 2020-06-26

Risk impact: Very low risk impact

Risk likelihood:

Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

activeTab
scripting
declarativeContent
storage

Size: 1.35M

Email: ye*****@gmail.com

URLs: Website

Ranking

# 25,090 ▲ 270

Other rankings

#272 in Education ▼ 4 #85 in english learning keyword 84 ▲ 6

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Extension summary

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English language pronunciation can be tricky. Word pronunciation may differ from the spelling. Learn the correct pronunciation by reading any text you like in phonetic transcription!

Using the extension is very easy, just watch tutorial video (30 seconds of time).

If you are a language learner, start practicing, and you will learn how many words you are misspelling every day.

This extension replaces words on a page with its phonetic transcription (so "the quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog" becomes "ðə kwɪk braʊn fɑks dʒəmps óʊvɜr ə léɪzi dɔg"). Just open any webpage and click the extension icon on a browser toolbar to convert text of a webpage (you can always click again to return the original text back).

This extension uses International Phonetic Alphabet. You can learn how to read IPA alphabet by following the link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English Also, you can use extension word pronunciation feature to learn IPA, just click on a transcribed word to listen how it sounds.

Extension telegram support channel: https://t.me/phonetic_transciber Comments and suggestions are welcome!

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.

Pros

Instant transcription of most text
Click word to pronounce feature is very useful
Works well with various web applications including Google Docs
Mouse-over feature displaying spelling is helpful
Includes word stress mark which is not provided by similar extensions

Cons

Crashes on Discord browser after short use
Does not retain font settings and changes font unexpectedly
Automatic transcription feature is lacking, requiring manual activation
Inconsistent rendering of IPA when scrolling on Twitter or viewing replies
Lack of choice for accent in English transcriptions (British/American)

Most mentioned

The need for an automatic transcription feature
Inconsistencies when typing or scrolling on certain platforms
Request for personalization options like accent choice
Crashing issue specifically with Discord
Issues with font rendering and stress mark conventions

User reviews

Just the fact that is exists is worth five stars. Stellar. Not only does it instantly transcribe most text everywhere, the click word to pronounce feature is genius. Thank you. Of course there are still some rough edges. The ability to set a keyboard extension to quickly turn off the extension and/or the pronunciation feature is needed. Also it would be nice to be able to choose a different ipa font the render. Web apps with lots of text struggle. You can't type text with the extension on because it will translate to ipa mid word while you are typing and thus not translate correctly. And when you scroll on twitter, frequently new text that is loaded does not render as ipa. Also when you click a tweet to see the replys the new page does not render ipa. Fixes for these issues would get the extension to 6/5 stars haha!

sword 7, 2025-01-13

I really love your extension, beside Discord everything else work perfectly, if you have some spare time could you help me look into it, it keep crashing my discord browser after like 5-10mins of using, appreciate it

Tankw, 2024-11-12

Hi, please add a feature to auto-transcribe some sites when i access them (can be like a blacklist(only transcribe these) or a whitelist(transcribe everything but these) so i won't have to click the extension button every time, or a feature that would just remember the state of the extension (if it's on or off) for each site independently, or that would just remember the state of the extension globally for all sites for the whole Chrome Anything but just please make it so that i don't have to turn it on every time... Also, how does it know what "accent" to transcribe English text to? Maybe I'm learning a specific pronunciation. Could be cool to choose between British and American transcriptions. Other than that, great extension!