Podcasts about International Phonetic Alphabet

When you order a kebab and they ask you if you want everything on it, you might say yes. But you'd probably still be surprised if it came with say, chocolate, let alone a bicycle...even though chocolate and bicycles are technically part of "everything". That's because words like "everything" and "all" really mean something more like "everything typical in this situation". Or in linguistic terms, we say that their scope is ambiguous without context. In this episode, your hosts Lauren Gawne and Gretchen McCulloch get enthusiastic about how we can think about ambiguity of meaning in terms of scope. We talk about how humour often relies on scope ambiguity, such as a cake with "Happy Birthday in red text" written on it (quotation scope ambiguity) and the viral bench plaque "In Memory of Nicole Campbell, who never saw a dog and didn't smile" (negation scope ambiguity). We also talk about how linguists collect fun examples of ambiguity going about their everyday lives, how gesture and intonation allow us to disambiguate most of the time, and using several scopes in one sentence for double plus ambiguity fun. Read the transcript here: https://lingthusiasm.com/post/748141442230272000/transcript-episode-91-scope Announcements: In this month's bonus episode we get enthusiastic about the forms that our thoughts take inside our heads! We talk about an academic paper from 2008 called "The phenomena of inner experience", and how their results differ from the 2023 Lingthusiasm listener survey questions on your mental pictures and inner voices. We also talk about more unnerving methodologies, like temporarily paralyzing people and then scanning their brains to see if the inner voice sections still light up (they do!). Join us on Patreon now to get access to this and 80+ other bonus episodes. You'll also get access to the Lingthusiasm Discord server where you can chat with other language nerds. You can find us at patreon.com/lingthusiasm Also: Join at the Ling-phabet tier and you'll get an exclusive “Lingthusiast – a person who's enthusiastic about linguistics,” sticker! You can stick it on your laptop or your water bottle to encourage people to talk about linguistics with you. Members at the Ling-phabet tier also get their very own, hand-selected character of the International Phonetic Alphabet – or if you love another symbol from somewhere in Unicode, you can request that instead – and we put that with your name or username on our supporter Wall of Fame! Check out our Supporter Wall of Fame and become a Ling-phabet patron here: patreon.com/lingthusiasm For links to things mentioned in this episode: https://lingthusiasm.com/post/748139974576275456/lingthusiasm-episode-91-scoping-out-the-scope-of

John and Craig take a look at the many For Your Consideration scripts suddenly available to read to see what lessons can be learned from movies that were actually made. They find best practices for establishing setting, using “we see” and “we hear,” complicated setups, directing on the page, and how to get right into your story. We also look at the possible sale of Paramount, the International Phonetic Alphabet and setting 2024 goals, before answering listener questions on UK credits and our writing routines. In our bonus segment for premium members, John and Craig chew on a difficult question — would we eat lab-grown human meat? Links: The Vultures Are Circling: Who Will Walk Away With Paramount? by Alex Weprin for The Hollywood Reporter The Holdovers by David Hemingson All of Us Strangers by Andrew Haigh May December by Samy Burch, story by Samy Burch & Alex Mechanik Saltburn by Emerald Fennell Killers of the Flower Moon by Eric Roth & Martin Scorsese Barbie by Greta Gerwig & Noah Baumbach Across the Spider-Verse by Phil Lord & Christopher Miller & Dave Callaham Oppenheimer by Christopher Nolan American Fiction by Cord Jefferson Weekend Read 2 Gartic Phone Dungeons & Dragons – Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage Get a Scriptnotes T-shirt! Check out the Inneresting Newsletter Gift a Scriptnotes Subscription or treat yourself to a premium subscription! Craig Mazin on Threads and Instagram John August on Threads, Instagram and Twitter John on Mastodon Outro by Zach Lo (send us yours!) Scriptnotes is produced by Drew Marquardt and edited by Matthew Chilelli. Email us at ask@johnaugust.com You can download the episode here.

About Mandy Fisher: Mandy Fisher is a NYC-based full-time voiceover actor with over 15 years of experience in the industry. She has worked with brands like Crayola, Disney, Peloton, Coke, Walmart, and Kohls to name a few. Her passion for voiceover and genuine love of helping people inspire her to work with actors of all stages of their career.  With a theater background, she brings her training to guide copy analysis and character creation. As an industry vet of 15 years, she has witnessed the changes and understands the ebbs and flows of the business.  Mandy created her own voiceover business from the ground up and has a successful and replicable model to help actors build their own successful businesses. All of this adds up to a coach who can provide audition and career advice while helping actors become the best they can be! Tell me about all the different types of voiceover that are out there today. There's more than one thing that you can do as a voiceover artist. And so often, I feel like when people ask me about voiceover, they just automatically assume that I'm an animation or like on cartoons. Or video games. And while that's definitely part of voiceover, a lot of my work is commercial and like what you hear on the radio or on TV and e-learning. Many companies I work with have videos that they need to show their employees, and that's a big part of voiceover that people don't necessarily like even thinking about, but then there's IVR, which is interactive voice response. So, when you call a business and you, they say, "Oh, thank you for calling Ikea, press one for the manager, press two for household goods." That's part of voice of real people who get hired for those jobs. And do that as voiceover. And I know a couple of people who do that only, and that's their entire career, and they make damn good money doing that. E-learning is a part of voiceover where a company will hire you for perhaps they want to teach their employees about some new policies at their workplace, or maybe a new product is launching. They want to tell the whole company who's not in product development. They want to educate the salespeople and the marketing people and all other kinds of people within the company; they want to educate them about the product or even sometimes it's. It's how to handle sexual harassment, go to HR with a complaint, or negotiate your salary. A company will want to have all kinds of modules so that their employees can learn, grow, and be better. And especially with remote working being such a major part of the corporate world these days. They rely heavily on these videos and voiceovers to educate their employees and keep their workforce culture booming so that they don't feel like they're on an island. There's anime, there's animation, there's commercials, there's radio spots, there's e-learning, and then the next one you were talking about was IVR. Interactive voice response and IVR and telephony are two different things, but they go hand in hand. Telephony is when you call a business and they have a message; maybe for they're on holiday or vacation. "Thank you for calling the law offices of Dunder and Dunder. we're currently on holiday, and we will get back to you as soon as possible." That's a message. That's part of telephony, and most of the time, if you get a client that wants telephony, you can upsell them on the I V R or vice versa. But they're two different things, but they often go hand in hand. There's looping, obviously ADR. And dubbing, many actors who are bilingual that's becoming its own vertical is bilingual voiceover because many people want to hire both the English speaker and the other language speakers for the same kinds of jobs. What's radio imaging? Oh yeah, radio imaging Is the voice of a radio station, not the DJ. So, not the one calling out the music cues, "you're listening to be 93.3." It's the voice that you hear between the DJ and the songs that makes the station recognizable. So, when you hear that be 93.3, that voice, that person calling out the radio station, it's recognizable to you. You're listening to that station and not Z 100. There's promo, there's medical, there's political. Let's start with promos. Promos are promotions for TV shows and movies, but not trailers. Trailers is a different kind of voiceover, but promo is like, "Join us this week for a new episode of Family Guy Only on CBS." Medical is complicated because it's all jargon. And a lot of times, you'll get a copy with all of these very technical terms or medications, and you have no idea how the hell to pronounce them, and you are rigorously googling, and yes, of course, you can ask the person that sent it to you, but nine times out of ten that person doesn't freaking know and then they have to ask the people that sent it to them, and there is this like long chain of response. Often, it is so specifically timed. ISI- important safety information, which is just the bottom half of that medical, of that medical promo that you're doing. IPA is the International Phonetic Alphabet. , once you learn it, you can pretty much look at any word and break it down through these little symbols that help you pronounce words because they stand for the different consonants and fricatives and vowels and all that kind of stuff in a word, and if you use the symbols to write it out. You are then able to read the IPA as it applies to the words. It's basically just spelling out the word the way that it sounds. Trailers for movies most of the time. Sometimes short films but big movie trailers always have a VO. "Coming to theaters now, it's Spider-Man." Video games and mobile fall under the same sort of category, but again, they're two separate things because video games for release on a console are different than a video game released on mobile, only in terms of usage, for performance, they're pretty much the same. A lot of video games use actors for an entire franchise. I know one video game used 800 different voice actors for one game. So, it's a huge industry. Toys and games. In the voices that you hear in those little books that have Press the cow. Moo. A lot of Fisher Price or Mattel or little kid things that have voices. Non-union and union work for audiobooks, which a lot of people don't realize that you can; if you are a union actor and voiceover, there are union voiceover audiobooks that exist out there to do, but I know a lot of people assume that most of that work is non-union. So, let's talk about union versus non-union. Seventy percent of voiceover work is non-union. So, many rules and things you might expect if you're a union actor doing non-union VO don't apply. And sometimes, you find yourself negotiating a little bit more. It can be an education process, especially if you are getting clients on your own through direct marketing or social or outside of agents. And I find that when I have to educate a client a little on industry-standard rates, they're receptive. But there is some pushback; that's just not in our budget, but maybe it will be for next year. So that's something that you should keep in mind as recurring clients are how you keep your business going and how you scale your business is you want to keep them; you don't want just to have one client and then never work with them again. So, suppose you can be a little compromising in those early stages of that relationship and understand that, okay, for the next time we work together. In that case, we're going to get closer and closer to those industry standard rates. That's one way to keep those clients in and scale. So, you used a term that I don't know if many actors know, scale your business. Can you please explain what scale your business is? Grow it. As a voiceover actor, if you are entering into this industry for the first time or if you have been doing it on and off part-time, it's making new connections, meeting new people, and finding out who needs to hire you, that changes the landscape of the industry has changed so much, especially when I first stumbled into it. So, keeping your ear to the ground and understanding how to grow continuously is important. Guide to Commercial Voiceovers VO Workout The guide to commercial VO is for any voiceover actor who wants to learn more about commercial voiceover because there's lots of nuance in every single vertical of voiceover. All the 15, 20, but they all have their own sort of ways of working, and what works in commercial is not necessarily going to work in video games and how you approach those different things. So, all of the skills behind the performance, as well as the skills behind the business, are in this course, and it's jam-packed with information at the end of it. One of my favorite parts of this is all of the people who participated asked so many amazing questions, and that right there is just, it is worth it to me, like those questions. That's why you want to get the replay. Get up and work voiceover session; it's 90 minutes and quick and dirty. And it's ten actors we work with. TenI provide or so minutes at a time, and I provide commercial copy that they can use and choose whichever piece they want to work on and read through the copy. I give them some notes in real-time, and we get to a place where we feel good about the work. Is it ready to send off as an audition? Sometimes it is. And sometimes we get to really great, beautiful places that we weren't in previously, but is it always that way? No, but it's about feeling good about the work, understanding the work, understanding the connections that you make, going through the copy, and being able to say, I know what story this is. I know what I'm doing. I feel confident about what I'm doing. And that's the goal is to be able to look at commercial copy for the first time. No, history of looking it over for days and days, but seeing it and being able to make strong choices in the moment and then forgetting about it, letting it go, working in the moment, and then you're done and letting it go because that's such a big part of commercials. And if I sat and stewed and thought so hard about every single audition I get every day, I would never make it through the deck. I would just be sitting here doing two or three instead of the 15 that come across my desk. And I would never get them out. What keeps coming up when negotiating a non-union contract? In perpetuity. What we're constantly seeing now in non-union VO specifically are exclusivity and in perpetuity, which again are two very different things, but we're starting to see them go hand in hand. Now, in perpetuity means forever and ever. Exclusivity means exclusive to a certain category or product. So, let's say you do a commercial for a toothpaste. And it's like a no-name toothpaste brand startup toothpaste. And they come to you, and they're like, "Oh my goodness. I would love for you to do our voiceover. We would like exclusivity in perpetuity." This means you can never do any other toothpaste ever again for the rest of your career. So, they better be paying a big sum of money. And if they're not, then you say, "I'm sorry, I can't work within those within those confines, but I can offer you 13 weeks at this rate or a year at this rate," But if it's in perpetuity for any kind of commercial, I stay far away from it. If it's in perpetuity for something like medical, I don't really care. Cause there's no competition there and there, the rates in medical are pretty good, so I don't really care, but in commercial. Unless they're paying me some six figures for in perpetuity, then then I say no. If you are trying to have a business, you must have the business mindset at the front and the performance mindset side by side. What kind of mic do you like to work with, just out of curiosity? Yeah. I have Neuman U 87, which I love. It's beautiful and produces great sound, but I also have a Rode NT1, which is also great, and a DEDS mic, and I think that is just as good as the Sennheiser MK 14. I use mics for different things for promo or medical. I usually use my shotgun deity for commercial. I'm usually using my Neumann for political and other things; I use my Rode; it just depends on where I'm sitting in my voice that day, what the work is, what I'm going to be doing. What is direct marketing? Direct marketing is doing research, whether on LinkedIn or Google, or however you like to do research to obtain information about companies and people, and then reaching out to them and saying, "Hi, I'm a voice actor. Here's my shit. Listen to my shit. Do you want to work together?" You are a salesperson, but are you a good salesperson, or are you a shitty one? And that comes through trial and error and seeing what works and seeing what people respond to. But I find nine times out of 10, a lot of these people I'm reaching out to have a very good sense of humor. They don't have a lot of time, and they like to be sold to in a snappy way that gets to the point with maybe a little bit of cheek and humor and fun and call it a fucking day. They don't want to go back and forth nine times about the last episode of Game of Thrones. Maybe down the line, sure, but right now, they need to do what's best for their business, what's best for their company, their team, whatever. They don't necessarily want to go through a casting site, pay that fee, and then pay these people. If they can work with you directly and you are good behind the mic, you're a good business person; you can do quick turnaround, you have good sound, they would rather work with you directly than going through all the fucking hoops through an agency or a casting site to find, and then scrolling through hundreds and hundreds of auditions to find the right person that they want to work with. So, direct marketing is a great way for you to scale your business. Your thoughts on AI. I think that AI has always been around for a really long time, not always, but for a very long time. And yes, it's getting better, smarter, and more capable, but I don't see it as competition. I know this will be a controversial thought, but I think there are ways we can work alongside it, learn from it, and utilize it to better ourselves. I don't think AI will replace voiceover actors in my lifetime. Every person I've talked to who have at one point hired AI voices for their projects said that they regretted it and they would much rather work with a human being. My father came up with a brilliant strike slogan, which is human stupidity is better than artificial intelligence. Working with people in all sorts of stages of their career is not only fun for me, but it is exciting to be able to offer that wide variety of coaching to all walks of life.

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Kia ora Mosen At Largers. A reminder that this podcast is indexed by chapter. If you listen with a podcast client that offers chapter support, you can easily skip between segments. We also make transcripts available, thanks to sponsorship by Pneuma Solutions, a global leader in accessible cloud technologies. Visit them on the web at . You can find the transcripts on our website at Here are the topics covered in this episode, and the time in the file for each. It's our penultimate edition for 2022,0:00.000 Welcome y'all in San Antonio,1:01.006 A final reminder to vote for your top 10 holiday songs and join our special party,4:01.991 Feedback from the Aira interview,7:23.719 Alternative contacts app for iOS,10:14.636 Determining if a light is active on a charger,10:45.843 Guide dog refusals and responsibility,14:54.336 Mastodon,22:38.514 Amateur radio,27:11.334 Disability labels,39:07.102 A gift can brighten someone's day,48:41.364 Chromevox granularity shortcut,54:02.685 Staticless AM radio,54:55.825 Bari Azman and Diane Ducharme from BlindShell USA,1:00:56.378 Blind people working with the International Phonetic Alphabet,1:38:43.000 HidrateSpark smart water bottle,1:39:45.528 The frustrating RealTek Windows drivers and screen readers,1:41:48.763 The Bonnie Bulletin,1:45:24.517 Closing and contact info,1:56:43.904 Share your thoughts on these topics or any others. Drop me an email in writing or with an audio attachment, Jonathan at MushroomFm.com, or phone the listener line in the United States, +1864-60Mosen, that's +18646066736. Keep up with Mosen At Large between episodes. Follow MosenAtLarge on Twitter where you'll get audio extras, links to interesting news stories, sneak peeks about what's coming up and more. If you'd like to subscribe to our announcements only email list, please send email to And if you like the show, we'd love a positive review and for you to spread the word. Thank you.

Have you ever wondered what the official name is of each letra in el abecedario? Perhaps you like to play Scrabble or Boggle, where this knowledge would come in handy. Or maybe you're just curious. Either way, today we'll cover the official names of the Spanish alphabet and how to spell them! Plus we'll talk about some of the supposed "lost letters" and some common letter pronunciation mistakes that English speakers make. And, of course, we will begin our cultural tip mini-series on Puerto Rico! ¡Vámanos!Remember, learning a language is a lifelong journey.¡Aprovéchalo, Disfrútalo y Compártelo!SHOW NOTES:©2022 by Language Answers, LLCBlog for Episode 80Intro and Closing Music by Master_Service from FiverrCultural Tip Transition Music edited from song by JuliusH from PixabayResource LinksEpisode Content  Episode 74: Why Does Spanish Have B and V?  Wordreference.com  "La Diccionario de la lengua española" by the RAE "R" by the Diccionario panhispánico de dudas 2005 by the RAE "Digraph” From Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary by Merriam-Webster. Accessed 29 Oct. 2022. "IPA Symbols Chart Complete" by the International Phonetic Alphabet.org  "Spanish Alphabet Pronunciation" by SpanishDict, by Curiosity Media, Inc.  "Fluent Forever Pronunciation Trainer" by Gabriel Wyner for Fluent Forever Cultural Tip "Puerto Rico - The World Factbook" by the CIA, last updated October 20, 2022 "Puerto Rico" by Wagenheim, Kal , Wagenheim, Olga J. and Mathews, Thomas G. for Encyclopedia Britannica, on October 19, 2022. Accessed 29 October 2022. "History of Puerto Rico" by Discover Puerto Rico "Puerto Rico votes in favor of statehood. But what does it mean for the island?" by Cristina Corujo for ABC News on November 8, 2020 "10 Must-Try Traditional Foods In Bolivia - Updated 2022" by Sidharth for Trip101, updated July 22, 2022 "Bolivian Food: 13 Traditional & Typical Dishes To Try" by Rainforest Cruises on June 15, 2021

What's the “it's” in “it's three pm and hot”? How do you write a cough in the International Phonetic Alphabet? Who is the person most likely to speak similarly to a randomly-selected North American English speaker? In this episode, your hosts Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne get enthusiastic about absurd hypothetical linguistic questions with special guest Randall Munroe, creator of the webcomic xkcd and author of What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions. We only wish that there was a little more linguistics in the book. So Randall came on to fill the gap with all his most ridiculous linguistics questions! One of our unresolved questions that we can merely speculate about is our predictions for what the future of English might be like. Are you listening to this episode from more than two decades in the future? Please write in from 2042 or later and let us know how accurate we've been! Read the transcript here: Announcements: We've teamed up with linguist/artist Lucy Maddox to create a fun, minimalist version of the classic International Phonetic Alphabet chart, which you can see here (plus more info about how we put together the design). It looks really cool, and it's also a practical reference tool that you can carry around with you in a convenient multi-purpose format: lens cloths! We're going to place ONE (1) massive order for aesthetic IPA chart lens cloths on October 6, 2022. If you want one, be a patron at the Lingthusiast tier or higher on October 5th, 2022, timezone: anywhere in the world. If you're already a patron at that tier, then you're set! (That's the tier where you also get bonus episodes and the Discord access, we've never run a special offer at this tier before but we think this time it'll be worth it!). www.patreon.com/lingthusiasm In this month's bonus episode we chat with Lucy about redesigning the IPA! We talk about how Lucy got interested in linguistics, how she got into art, how we started working with her, and the many design considerations that went into making a redesigned IPA chart. Join us on Patreon now to get access to this and 60+ other bonus episodes, access to the Lingthusiasm Discord server where you can chat with other language nerds, as well your exclusive IPA chart lens cloth! www.patreon.com/lingthusiasm Click here for the full show notes, which includes links to things mentioned in this episode:

Partway down your throat are two flaps of muscle. When you breathe normally, you pull the flaps away to the sides, and air comes out silently. But if you stretch the flaps across the opening of your throat while pushing air up through, you can make them vibrate in the breeze and produce all sorts of sounds -- sort of like the mucousy reed of a giant meat clarinet. (You're welcome.) In this episode, your hosts Lauren Gawne and Gretchen McCulloch get enthusiastic about the vocal folds! They're often called vocal cords, but as they're attached along the long side rather than just the two ends like a guitar string, we're using the more precise “folds” (just be thankful they're not called “vocal flaps”!) We talk about the many cool types of vibrations you can make with your vocal folds: pushing out an extra puff of air (aspiration), turning off your vocal folds while still talking (whisper), making them high and tight (falsetto), low and airy (breathy voice), and low and crackly (creaky voice, aka vocal fry). We also talk about the ways that various languages draw on different configurations of these vibrations to distinguish between words (such as “sip” and “zip”; Thai, Tai, and Dai; and more) or for stylistic effect (such as newscaster voice). Transcript: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/lingthusiasm/692978486586048512 Announcements We've teamed up with linguist/artist Lucy Maddox to create a fun, minimalist version of the classic International Phonetic Alphabet chart, which you can see here (plus more info about how we put together the design). It looks really cool, and it's also a practical reference tool that you can carry around with you in a convenient multi-purpose format: lens cloths! We're going to place ONE (1) massive order for aesthetic IPA chart lens cloths on October 6, 2022. If you want one, be a patron at the Lingthusiast tier or higher on October 5th, 2022, timezone: anywhere in the world. If you're already a patron at that tier, then you're set! (That's the tier where you also get bonus episodes and the Discord access, we've never run a special offer at this tier before but we think this time it'll be worth it!). https://www.patreon.com/lingthusiasm In this month's bonus episode we get enthusiastic about a forgotten gem of a linguistics paper about a rabbit! We talk about how Linguistics Twitter got excited about tracking down this paper based on a vague rumour, Labov's history of coming up with unique ways to record language in more natural environments, and useful takeaways about how to talk with children. Join us on Patreon now to get access to this and 60+ other bonus episodes, including an upcoming episode where we interview the artist and linguist Lucy Maddox about the process of designing our new IPA chart. You'll also get access to the Lingthusiasm Discord server where you can chat with other language nerds, as well your exclusive IPA chart lense cloth! https://www.patreon.com/lingthusiasm For links to things mentioned in this episode: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/lingthusiasm/692978069598814208

Have you ever wondered why Spanish has both the letters "B" and V", when they both make the same sound? Well, in today's episode, we'll answer that very question! And then, for our Cultural Tip, we'll talk about the national holidays of Ecuador!Remember, learning a language is a lifelong journey.¡Aprovéchalo, Disfrútalo y Compártelo!SHOW NOTES:©2022 by Language Answers, LLCBlog for Episode 74Intro and Closing Music by Master_Service from FiverrCultural Tip Transition Music edited from song by JuliusH from PixabayResource LinksEpisode Content  "International Phonetic Alphabet" by InternationalPhoneticAlphabet.org  "The International Phonetic Alphabet" by the International Phonetic Association, last revised 2015 "International Phonetic Alphabet for American English" by EasyPronunciation.com "Pronouncing the Spanish B and V" by Gerald Erichsen for ThoughtCo.com on April 11, 2019 "¿Por qué se pronuncian igual B y V en español? Historia de la confusión" by DelCastellano.com "¿Por qué pronuncio así la B y la V? | ¿Qué es correcto?" by Linguriosa, uploaded to YouTube on February 21, 2021 "Romance languages" by Sala, Marius and Posner, Rebecca for Encyclopedia Britannica, July 26, 2021. Accessed 27 June 2022. "Golden Age" by Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia, for Encyclopedia Britannica, February 2, 2022. Accessed 27 June 2022. Real Academia Española (rae.es) Episodio 73: Diferencias Ortográficas entre el Inglés Americano, Canadiense y Británico (en Inglés) Cultural Tip"National Holidays in Ecuador in 2022" by OfficeHolidays.com. See the individual holiday links for more information.  

Have you ever pondered the letter P, or maybe reflected on the letter R? As in, thought about their structures, their shapes, and how they came to be. I, to be honest, had not. I have never given these letters—or any other letters—much thought. But that's what we're up to today. In this episode, we're looking across the world's hundred plus scripts and asking some basic questions: How are they alike? How do they differ? And why do they have the shapes that they do? My guests are Dr. Yoolim Kim and Dr. Olivier Morin. Yoolim is a Psycholinguist at the Korea Institute at Harvard University, and Olivier is director of the Minds and Traditions research group (aka ‘The Mint') at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany. Olivier and Yoolim, along with other colleagues, have recently launched a new online game called Glyph. You can play right now. It asks players to help describe, break down, and classify the characters of dozens of writing systems around the world.   Here, we talk about Glyph and what Yoolim and Olivier hope to learn from it. We do a bit of ‘Writing Systems 101' and shine a spotlight on two scripts with fascinating origin stories: Hangul, the Korean script which was devised in the 15th century and Vai, a script invented in Liberia in the 19th century. We also talk about how universal cognitive factors shape writing systems and about whether the writing system you use shapes how you think. Finally, we discuss the earliest writing systems and what they were used for; the myth that the alphabet is the most advanced type of writing system; and the understudied—but not uncommon!—phenomenon of “biscriptalism.” If you enjoy this episode, be sure to check out Glyph. It sounds super fun and engrossing—and I'll definitely be playing it myself! On to my conversation with Dr. Yoolim Kim and Dr. Olivier Morin. Enjoy!   A transcript of this episode will be available soon!   Notes and links 2:30 – You can sign up to play Glyph and watch a video about the game here. 6:30 – The International Phonetic Alphabet or IPA. 10:00 – In addition to writing, Dr. Morin's group at the MPI has also studied coin designs and other aspects of visual culture. 16:30 – A paper by Dr. Morin and colleagues about writing as one of many kinds of “graphic codes.” 18:40 – An explanation of the international laundry symbols. 19:50 – A video about how Egyptian hieroglyphs were decoded. A website where you can see your name written in Egyptian hieroglyphs. 24:50 – An article laying out five major types of writing system, distinguished by the linguistic unit they encode. 27:40 – More information about Hangul and Vai. 33:00 – A pioneering early paper by Mark Changizi and colleagues about the origins of letter shapes. 34:00 – A research paper by Dr. Morin about how cognitive biases for cardinal shapes and vertical symmetry shape letter forms. 37:30 – A cuneiform tablet, which shows how the script has a distinctive three-dimensional “wedge-shaped” quality. 41:30 – A research paper by Dr. Morin and colleagues on how the Vai script seems to have gotten simpler over its short history. A general audience treatment of the same study by co-author Piers Kelly. 42:00 – A research paper by Dr. Helena Miton and Dr. Morin about what determines the complexity of written letters. 45:00 – The Ogham script, which may have needed to grow more complex over time rather than simplify. 46:00 – An article on the origins of writing in different parts of the world. An article on the rebus principle. 48:30 – Our earlier essay on footprints, which discusses the idea that bird tracks inspired the Chinese writing system. 50:00 – A paper in which Dr. Morin and colleagues discuss the role of early writing in “recitation practices”. 52:00 ­– The idea that literacy profoundly affects cognition was famously articulated by Jack Goody in The Domestication of the Savage Mind. A paper by Stanislas Dehaene and a colleague about the “Visual Word Form Area” and how it becomes rapidly specialized for reading. 55:00 – Korean readers are often “biscriptal” in that they are familiar with both Hangul and Hanja. 57:30 – A paper by Dr. Kim and colleagues on whether Hanja shapes the mental lexicon of Korean speakers. 59:00 – A research paper examining some of the effects of biscriptalism. 1:03 – A paper by Isabelle Dautriche and colleagues about how word forms are clustered in the lexicon.   Dr. Kim recommends: In the Land of Invented Languages, by Arika Okrent Highly Irregular, by Arika Okrent Frindle, by Andrew Clements   Dr. Morin recommends: The Greatest Invention, by Silvia Ferrara Stories of Your Life, by Ted Chiang Codes of the Underworld, by Diego Gambetta You can read more about Dr. Morin's lab on the Mint website and follow him on Twitter. You can read more about Dr. Kim's research here.   Many Minds is a project of the Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) (https://disi.org), which is made possible by a generous grant from the Templeton World Charity Foundation to UCLA. It is hosted and produced by Kensy Cooperrider, with help from assistant producer Cecilia Padilla. Creative support is provided by DISI Directors Erica Cartmill and Jacob Foster. Our artwork is by Ben Oldroyd (https://www.mayhilldesigns.co.uk/). Our transcripts are created by Sarah Dopierala (https://sarahdopierala.wordpress.com/). You can subscribe to Many Minds on Apple, Stitcher, Spotify, Pocket Casts, Google Play, or wherever you like to listen to podcasts. **You can now subscribe to the Many Minds newsletter here!** We welcome your comments, questions, and suggestions. Feel free to email us at: manymindspodcast@gmail.com. For updates about the show, visit our website (https://disi.org/manyminds/), or follow us on Twitter: @ManyMindsPod.

Curious about the world of opera? Today, I'm sharing my journey from literally singing on a tractor to carving out a professional career in opera.  To begin our interview series, we're going to flip the table as I will be put in the proverbial hot seat. While I do enjoy performing and occasionally taking the spotlight, it's much more comfortable for me to shine the spotlight on someone else. Turning my own questions to myself felt a bit daunting so I decided to ask my friend, vocal geek colleague, and fellow YouTuber, Julia Nilon to help out.  Julia and I share a deep fascination for music and vocal function, and we've had similar yet unique journeys in academic studies, voice teaching, and YouTube growth. And so, if anyone would be able to dig into my history and pick out the little bizarre tidbits that other people wouldn't think of as bizarre, then it would be Julia. There's more to being a professional opera singer than just learning how to sing. Aside from getting the right education, you have to consider the costs involved, the different languages you have to learn and the cultures you need to immerse into, so you can get your message across through the power of your voice.   In this episode, you will hear: The story behind the name My journey as a professional opera singer Developing skills in an enduring environment How to prepare for different performance environments Studying the languages and reading the International Phonetic Alphabet  Major differences going from English to French The costs of opera How to manage your nerves How to hold notes much longer Managing your vocal health   Subscribe and Review Have you subscribed to our podcast? We'd love for you to subscribe if you haven't yet.  We'd love it even more if you could drop a review or 5-star rating over on Apple Podcasts. Simply select “Ratings and Reviews” and “Write a Review” then a quick line with your favorite part of the episode. It only takes a second and it helps spread the word about the podcast.   Supporting Resources: https://thecharismaticvoice.com/   Episode Credits If you like this podcast and are thinking of creating your own, consider talking to my producer, Emerald City Productions. They helped me grow and produce the podcast you are listening to right now. Find out more at https://emeraldcitypro.com Let them know we sent you.

Bonjour à tous ! Je voulais terminer la semaine avec un petit épisode express : l'API en français. Let's learn about the API, or the international phonetic alphabet in French today. Bonne écoute ! Don't forget to check out the links below. ⬇   LINKS MENTIONED 

If you're diving into the fascinating world of speech sounds, then one of your first stops has to be learning about the IPA, the International Phonetic Alphabet! Together with your personal language guide Emily (linguist, PhD), you'll get to discover what exactly the IPA is, when to use it, and how it's possible that by studying this one very special piece of paper you can unlock the speech sounds to ALL of the world's languages!For the blog article and to get your free language goodies, click here: https://blog.mangolanguages.com/the-building-blocks-of-speech-how-to-use-the-ipaLooking for what to listen to next? Try this AWESOME podcast about how speech sounds work! https://www.buzzsprout.com/1818324/10347057If you liked this episode,  join the Mango Languages fam by subscribing to our podcast! We also invite you to check out our website at: https://mangolanguages.com/ and follow us on social media @MangoLanguages. And remember – language is an adventure. Enjoy the ride!Interested in learning Spanish, French, Korean, or one of the other 70+ languages that the Mango app offers? Click here to learn more!  https://mangolanguages.com/appEmily Sabo (PhD, University of Michigan) is a linguist at Mango Languages. A Pittsburgh native, her areas of specialization are the social and cognitive factors that impact bilingual language processing. Having studied 7 languages and lived in various countries abroad, she sees multilingualism -- and the cultural diversity that accompanies it -- as the coolest of superpowers. Complementary to her work at Mango, Emily is a Lecturer of Spanish at the University of Tennessee, a Producer of the “We Are What We Speak' docuseries, and get this...a storytelling standup comedian!Clips used in this episode:Ice Age Funny, Favorite Moments | Saara Koponen | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxRDJPDKyBkMy Fair Lady Pronunciation | Fabrice Doutreleau | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJr9SSJKkIIHow to pronounce Zulu clicks with Sakhile Dube | Stray Along The Way | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHHGOYu6Fl0#howlanguageworks #InternationalPhoneticAlphabet #IPA

On FSCast 213, Dr. Robert Englebretson, Associate Professor of Linguistics at Rice University, discusses the Braille code for the International Phonetic Alphabet, why reading Braille is different than reading print, and his ongoing research about how Braille is taught.   Transcript available at https://blog.FreedomScientific.com/FSCast

Ah the good old days, when the upper class spoke five court languages and everyone else couldn't read. Still, opera endures as powerful emotional storytelling. Hear how opera singers build their lungs, learn about the International Phonetic Alphabet, and musical “accents”. Subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts!

In this inaugural episode of English Spoken Well, we look why native Malayalam speakers may have difficulties with English pronunciation. We explain the phonetic differences between the two languages and introduces new methods of learning pronunciation. Includes an introduction to the International Phonetic Alphabet, an app as a study aid, as well as an indepth introduction to vowels used in English and their differences with Malayalam vowels.

Here it is! The first episode of American on the Outside! Join Weldon and Chesney as they talk about the difficulties of speaking, listening, and trying to learn a second language while wearing masks, what the pandemic has meant for personal space, and what Europe is like without American tourists. Curious about some of the things we're talking about? Check out how to really say "rødgrød med fløde" ([ˈʁœðˀˌɡ̊ʁœðˀ mɛ ˈfløːð̩] for all you International Phonetic Alphabet nerds) and let us know how Chesney did on her pronunciation. Her daughter still thinks it's rubbish. Make some rødgrød med fløde to try yourself. It's the perfect summer dessert!

0138 – Pronunciation Guides Pronunciation guidesPronunciation guides are available online: use a reliable one such as ‘The Oxford BBC Guide to Pronunciation’[1]. For BBC staff, the Corporation has its own Pronunciation Unit whose staff are on hand to answer questions especially on newly-emerging names. For that of a foreign politician who is suddenly in the news, the experts are able to quickly carry out brief research of person, their country of origin and language to see what the ‘root’ of their name is, as well as see whether that person has ever explained how they prefer their name to be pronounced (is Jose Smyth, a “ho-say smith” or a “jo-zay smythe”, or any other combination?). The Unit will then call their colleague back to pronounce the name down the phone, as well as sending them a written guide (such as this, below) for future reference. [1] Available on Amazon etc ‘The Oxford BBC Guide to Pronunciation’ is, according to its blurb, “the ideal source for finding out how to pronounce controversial or difficult words and names. Expert guidance is given on how to pronounce 15,000+ difficult words and names, using both the International Phonetic Alphabet and simpler respelled pronunciations”.==Through these under-5-minute episodes, you can build your confidence and competence with advice on breathing and reading, inflection and projection, the roles played by better scripting and better sitting, mic techniques and voice care tips... with exercises and anecdotes from a career spent in TV and radio studios.And as themes develop over the weeks (that is, they are not random topics day-by-day), this is a free, course to help you GET A BETTER BROADCAST, PODCAST AND VIDEO VOICE.Look out for more details of the book during 2021.Contacts: https://linktr.ee/Peter_Stewart Peter has been around voice and audio all his working life and has trained hundreds of broadcasters in all styles of radio from pop music stations such as Capital FM and BBC Radio 1 to Heart FM, the classical music station BBC Radio 3 and regional BBC stations. He’s trained news presenters on regional TV, the BBC News Channel and on flagship programmes such as the BBC’s Panorama. Other trainees have been music presenters, breakfast show hosts, travel news presenters and voice-over artists.He has written a number of books on audio and video presentation and production (“Essential Radio Journalism”, “JournoLists”, two editions of “Essential Radio Skills” and three editions of “Broadcast Journalism”) and has written on voice and presentation skills in the BBC’s in-house newspaper “Ariel”.Peter has presented hundreds of radio shows (you may have heard him on BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 4, Virgin Radio or Kiss, as well as BBC regional radio) with formats as diverse as music-presentation, interview shows, ‘special’ programmes for elections and budgets, live outside broadcasts and commentaries and even the occasional sports, gardening and dedication programmes. He has read several thousand news bulletins, and hosted nearly 2,000 podcast episodes, and is a vocal image consultant advising in all aspects of voice and speech training for presenters on radio and TV, podcasts and YouTube, voiceovers and videocalls.The podcast title refers to those who may wish to change their speaking voice in some way. It is not a suggestion that anyone should, or be pressured into needing to. We love accents and dialects, and are well aware that how we speak changes over time. The key is: is your voice successfully communicating your message, so it is being understood (and potentially being acted upon) by your target audience?This podcast is London-based and examples are spoken in the RP (Received Pronunciation) / standard-English / BBC English pronunciation, although invariably applicable to other languages, accents and dialects. Music credits:"Bleeping Demo" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/7012-bleeping-demo License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license "Beauty Flow" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5025-beauty-flow License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license "Envision" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4706-envision License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license "Limit 70" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5710-limit-70 License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license "Rising Tide" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5027-rising-tide License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license "Wholesome" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5050-wholesomeLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Based in Houston, Texas, Dr Robert Englebretson is widely recognised for his contribution to braille research. In 2008, his work on updating the Braille International Phonetic Alphabet was published by the International Council on English Braille, and in 2019 the Braille Authority of North America made him a recipient of the Darleen Bogart Braille Excellence ... Read more

In Modern English, we use the TH digraph to represent the voiced and voiceless dental fricative sounds. However, English previously had two unique letters that did this same job: eth and thorn. In this episode, we look at the origin and decline of eth and thorn in English in addition to some places outside of the English alphabet where these ancient letters have survived.  Ticket link to Intelligent Speech 2021: https://www.intelligentspeechconference.com/ The International Phonetic Alphabet interactive chart: https://www.internationalphoneticalphabet.org/ipa-sounds/ipa-chart-with-sounds/  

Links to Use to help advocate for in a medical situation if needed and self-care treatment suggestions:https://www.healthline.com/health/musical-ear-syndrome#treatmenthttps://scholarworks.uark.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1059&context=rhrcuhtHere is an outline for Episode 53 for Sound Advice: A Hearing Friendly Business Podcast featuring Teresa Barnes, RN, and Neil Bauman, Ph. D.  Both participants are hard of hearing and have been since birth.  Yet, they have successfully excelled in their chosen careers.   Here is the outline in case you want to jump ahead: Section 75.  80% of communication is based on emotions according to Dr. Neil BaumamSection 76. It's best to use the International Phonetic Alphabet for customer service as it's easier for a hard-of-hearing person with hearing loss to understand as only two of the words have similar sounds to choose between word options is easier for someone with hearing loss.  Here are some resources.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabethttps://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/content/full-ipa-chartber sound is from November. Even if a hard-of-hearing person hears nothing else the brain can process other words that might end with the sound ber. Section 78.  Neil Bauman has the 2nd Largest Hearing Aid collection and the first of many hearing aid technology. Like the 1st Digital Hearing AidGo to Hearing Aid Museum or Hearing Help Center and click on the museum. https://hearingaidmuseum.com/ Section 129.  Discussion about  tinnitus and solutionsSection 136.  Musical Ear Syndrome or AdopheniaSection 194.  The brain is pattern matches explains further tinnitus and musical ear syndrome. Avoid ototoxic psychiatric medications unless really needed.  It might just be the being of dementia or hearing loss. 

Learn Australian English by listening to this episode of The Goss! These are conversations with my old man Ian Smissen for you to learn more about Australian culture, news, and current affairs. In this episode, we talk about Australian philanthropists who are spending their money to help save Earth! We learn that these Australian millionaires are setting up foundations around Australia that can help fight climate change. We also talk about IPA - not the International Phonetic Alphabet, because IPA also stands for Indian pale ale. It's a kind of beer loaded with hops so that it survives its long journey from India to Australia. Improve your listening skills today - listen, play & pause this episode - and start speaking like a native English speaker!

In today's episode, Tara shares many of the books that she has used in teaching for  different ages and types of singers. She gives you lots of practical resources and where to purchase books so you and your students have a library to choose from. Tara has taken the pain out of trying to look through tons and tons of repertoire and nailing it down to specific music books so that you can spend more time on your teaching and singing and not research!   Please go to Products I recommend to purchase some of these books from Amazon. I am an Amazon affiliate, so doing it this way also helps support this podcast! The Very Beginning singer:   Folksong books:  Folksongs for Solo Singers, Vol 1 and 2, and one of my favs is International Folk Songs for Solo Singers. All of these are by Jay Althaus. In these books, you can find high, low and medium high so it really helps for range. Broadway anthologies for kids:  KIDS' BROADWAY SONGBOOK by Hal Leonard publishing and the KIDS' MUSICAL THEATRE COLLECTION – VOLUME 1 or VOLUME 2 also by Hal Leonard Publishing. Classical songbook: 36 SOLOS FOR YOUNG SINGERS by Joan Boytim     The Teenager beginner-intermediate:   Artsongs and Spiritual songs books: Spirituals for Solo Singers by Jay Althaus or the series entitled Classical Contest Songs by Hal Leonard publishing (Soprano, Mezzo, Tenor and Bass) More classical: LOVERS, LASSES & SPRING (soprano), ROSES, LAUGHTER AND LULLABIES (mezzo) , YOUNG LADIES, SHIPMATES AND JOURNEYS (Tenor and Bass) all by Joan Boytim Broadway books: TUNES FOR TEENS FROM MUSICALS (Young Men's Edition) and (Young Women's Edition) both by Hal Leonard publishing.     The Intermediate singer:   Classical series—Joan Boytim songbooks: THE FIRST BOOK OF SOPRANO SOLOS, THE FIRST BOOK OF MEZZO-SOPRANO/ALTO SOLOS, THE FIRST BOOK OF TENOR SOLOS, THE FIRST BOOK OF BARITONE/BASS SOLOS Classical series—Soprano Songs, Mezzo-Soprano Songs, Tenor Songs, Baritone Songs (all by Boosey and Hawkes) but now in the NEW IMPERIAL EDITION. 24 ITALIAN SONGS & ARIAS OF THE 17TH & 18TH CENTURIES  Schirmer's version but you can get many versions of these. Broadway anthologies: SINGER'S MUSICAL THEATRE ANTHOLOGY by Hal Leonard and edited by Richard Walters.  Jazz standards (American songbook) THE SINGER'S BOOK OF JAZZ STANDARDS - (Women's or Men's Editions),    Places to purchase music online:  amazon.com halleonard.com https://www.jwpepper.com/sheet-music/welcome.jsp   Sheet music: https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/ https://www.musicnotes.com/   Great book for vocal warmups: Building Beautiful Voices by Paul Neshiem and Weston Noble   Sight-singing/Solfegging: Sing at First Sight by Andy Beck, Karen Farnum Surmani, Brian Lewis   For all you teachers who want to brush up on other languages: Diction for Singers by Joan Wall, Robert Caldwell Tracy Gavilanes, Sheila Allen     For an episode on IPA—the International Phonetic Alphabet— please check Episode 023 | Dr. Melody Rich | What is IPA?.   You can subscribe  to THE ENGAGING VOICE on the platform you listen on: Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart radio, Youtube and Apple Podcasts. And now, it's also on Amazon Music Audible and PlayerFM too!! AND you can share this episode to social media or with your friends! Give them a gift today by sharing this free podcast with them!  

KEY NOTES 0:00  DISCLAIMER 0:19  What’s up this episode? 0:47  Charity projects 1:41  Today’s album 3:16  The A3Day rating An Album a Day is my exploration into the Korean music scene. This podcast will cover mainstream, indie and some underground artists within the scene and provide both factual and opinionated commentary. The biggest benefit to sharing my thoughts this way is that it will hopefully expose you to more great music and exploration of your own. We still have not reached a full album. How did After School endure this for so many comebacks? However they did it, Pledis Entertainment told the music department to put on a happy face and throw some holiday cheer into the mix because they were making an album unlike their previous ones. Jingle those bells and thank those fans, right after the drop.  You’re tuned into An Album a Day. Show start. Hey y’all, it’s the season of giving and holiday cheer in this time in history. Today, we’re time traveling to December 2010 for “Happy Pledis 1st Album.” We recently talked about concepts and themes but this here is a project. Projects can exist within a concept and have a theme. Let’s keep it this simple so that we can move forward. If you’re interested in understanding more about concepts and themes, look up After School “Bang!”, Season 4 Episode 8.  The album “Happy Pledis” is a charity single. Charity projects are usually associated with a philanthropic cause and in this case, a portion of the proceeds (which is just a simple word for saying monies earned from an activity or an event) went to the Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Pledis_1st_Album) for this album says, “to look around themselves with a warmer heart in the winter season.” Pledis Entertainment encouraged other artists on the label to create their own version of the “Happy Pledis” album and their warmed heart allowed After School member Bekah a break from promotions to spend time with her family. After School’s project contributions were tracks “Love Love Love,” written by member Raina, and “Someone is You,” written by Kahi. Instrumentals of both songs, created by Anders Dannvik and Krististian Lagerstr, and Dainel Barkman and Jorgen Ringqvist respectively, close out the album at about 14 minutes. I sincerely apologize for any mispronunciations of the names of these composers, arrangers, and writers. While I know there are some nuances to Swedish and the International Phonetic Alphabet provides some assistance, regional dialects can impact pronunciation and I hate screwing up names.  The songs are lighthearted and a solid 180 from the energy of “Bang!” This makes total sense, as secular Christmas music usually is. After School took an adopted Christmas music approach, actually, where the actual holiday isn’t acknowledged but the tune can be easily placed into a Christmas playlist. “Love Love Love” is talking about the feelings of being with the person you love and the rush of that realization for the first time, and “Someone is You” isn’t far off from that mark. The musicality and especially video themes need only a bit of snow and a cup of hot chocolate and bam! Some of us are thinking of Christmas. K-pop fans on a scale of 1 to 5 with 5 being essential listening and 1 not worth mentioning, the A3Day rating on this is a 5. Short and sweet, the ladies were able to raise money for charity, create love songs that can work for the time of year when people want to feel loved most, and accommodates both secular and non-Christian fans with lovely music compositions in instrumental form. I hope that things continue to go up from here for the ladies, just as I said in yesterday’s episode. I’ll catch you in the next episode, bye y’all. There’s sponsored ads and social media hashtags but this show is truly supported by the efforts of my MACGoalas, the most amazing fan base a lil’ entertainer could ever have.  Special shout out to my Patreon... Support this podcast

KEY NOTES0:00 DISCLAIMER0:19 Whats up this episode?0:47 Charity projects1:41 Todays album3:16 The A3Day ratingAn Album a Day is my exploration into the Korean music scene. This podcast will cover mainstream, indie and some underground artists within the scene and provide both factual and opinionated commentary. The biggest benefit to sharing my thoughts this way is that it will hopefully expose you to more great music and exploration of your own.We still have not reached a full album. How did After School endure this for so many comebacks? However they did it, Pledis Entertainment told the music department to put on a happy face and throw some holiday cheer into the mix because they were making an album unlike their previous ones. Jingle those bells and thank those fans, right after the drop. Youre tuned into An Album a Day. Show start.Hey yall, its the season of giving and holiday cheer in this time in history. Today, were time traveling to December 2010 for Happy Pledis 1st Album. We recently talked about concepts and themes but this here is a project. Projects can exist within a concept and have a theme. Lets keep it this simple so that we can move forward. If youre interested in understanding more about concepts and themes, look up After School Bang!, Season 4 Episode 8. The album Happy Pledis is a charity single. Charity projects are usually associated with a philanthropic cause and in this case, a portion of the proceeds (which is just a simple word for saying monies earned from an activity or an event) went to the Save the Children organization. Pledis Entertainment, the label that After School was built upon, might not have meant charity in this typical way exclusively. This album was released during December and lists its genre as pop and Christmas, so there might have been attention towards the Biblical definition of charity. After all, Pledis did say that they wanted their artists to return the love they receive from their fans and to bolster compassion for the winter season. More specifically, the Wikipedia page for this album says, to look around themselves with a warmer heart in the winter season. Pledis Entertainment encouraged other artists on the label to create their own version of the Happy Pledis album and their warmed heart allowed After School member Bekah a break from promotions to spend time with her family.After Schools project contributions were tracks Love Love Love, written by member Raina, and Someone is You, written by Kahi. Instrumentals of both songs, created by Anders Dannvik and Krististian Lagerstr, and Dainel Barkman and Jorgen Ringqvist respectively, close out the album at about 14 minutes. I sincerely apologize for any mispronunciations of the names of these composers, arrangers, and writers. While I know there are some nuances to Swedish and the International Phonetic Alphabet provides some assistance, regional dialects can impact pronunciation and I hate screwing up names. The songs are lighthearted and a solid 180 from the energy of Bang! This makes total sense, as secular Christmas music usually is. After School took an adopted Christmas music approach, actually, where the actual holiday isnt acknowledged but the tune can be easily placed into a Christmas playlist. Love Love Love is talking about the feelings of being with the person you love and the rush of that realization for the first time, and Someone is You isnt far off from that mark. The musicality and especially video themes need only a bit of snow and a cup of hot chocolate and bam! Some of us are thinking of Christmas.K-pop fans on a scale of 1 to 5 with 5...

Soft spoken ramble about the International Phonetic Alphabet, Writing systems of the world, and the History of the Greek alphabet. Binaural Soft speaking in Swedish accent - to help you relax and sleep. Also available on YouTube (Video+Audio). If you’d like to support me :)Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/illumarcticaPayPal: https://www.paypal.me/illumarcticaYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/ASMRcticaTeespring: https://teespring.com/stores/asmrctica

In English, "a" usually symbolizes the sound of the front vowel almost openly unanimated (IPA: / æ /; as in the word pad), the back vowel is open intact (IPA: / ɑː /; as in the word father), or diphthong / eɪ / as in the words ace and major, because of the effect of Massive Vocal Shifts. In most languages ​​that use the Latin alphabet system, "a" symbolizes the sound of the front vowel being open uninterested (/ a /). In the International Phonetic Alphabet, variations of the letter "a" indicate different vowels. In the X-SAMPA system, the uppercase letter "A" indicates the back vowels are open unintentionally and the lowercase letter "a" indicates the front vowels open intact. "A" is the third most commonly used letter in English, and the second most used in Spanish and French. In one study, on average, about 3.68% of the letters used in English tended to ‹a›, while the figure was 6.22% for Spanish and 3.95% for French. [3] "A" is often used to indicate something or someone with a better or prestigious quality or status: A-, A or A +, the best results given by the teacher / lecturer to student assignments; A's for clean restaurants, etc.

Samara and her pod producer Cat take listener questions on: how to communicate through a mask, what to do about thinking you're too soft or too loud, how to have difficult conversations with sexist coworkers or pitch old guys who don’t take you seriously, and how to use your voice to get what you want… when you’re crafting the perfect opening line on a dating app. Host: Samara Bay Executive producers: Catherine Burt Cantin & Mark Cantin, Double Vision doublevisionprojects.com Producers: Samara Bay, Sophie Lichterman and the iHeart team Theme music: Mark Cantin Rebecca Solnit’s essay on heroism: lithub.com/rebecca-solnit-when-the-hero-is-the-problem/ For more on code switching: thoughtco.com/code-switching-language-1689858  More about Feminist Business School: sister.is/ More about "White Fragility": robindiangelo.com/publications/ More about International Phonetic Alphabet: internationalphoneticalphabet.org/ipa-sounds/ipa-chart-with-sounds/ More about Young Entertainment Activists: youngentertainmentactivists.com/ More on strength & warmth: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/311040/compelling-people-by-john-neffinger/ More on honoring native lands: usdac.us/nativeland ****Do you have an entrance song or a power ballad to throw on our Spotify list? Visit us at PermissiontoSpeakPod.com or on Instagram @permissiontospeakpod**** And of course, please leave us a review and rate us on Apple Podcasts or the iHeartRadio app! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

We continue our conversation with Holly Baloo and do a deep dive into pop culture and nerdy shit. Teen Witch, Harry Potter, the International Phonetic Alphabet, and much much more. Ricky doesn’t know most of the references. Follow Holly on Instagram @HollyBaloo and on Facebook at Facebook.com/HollyBaloochi Rainbow-a-Go-Go plays at Comedy Sportz at 10pm on

What are the 4 properties of sound waves? Sound waves are often simplified to a description in terms of sinusoidal plane waves, which are characterized by these generic properties: Frequency, or its inverse, wavelength. Amplitude, sound pressure or Intensity. Speed of sound. Direction. Audio oscillator Featured snippet from the web Oscillators generate sound by, er, oscillating. That is, their circuitry basically changes or oscillates between two states very quickly, and just as a vibrating string produces a sound, so the oscillating electronic circuit generates a waveform that can be amplified and used as a sound source. #HowSynthesizersWork BY JEFF HARDER #Synthesizer Components Jay Blakesberg/Workbook Stock/Getty Images Jay Blakesberg/Workbook Stock/Getty Images WHAT MANY MUSIC BUFFS THINK OF WHEN THEY HEAR THE WORD "SYNTHESIZER." Even though many synthesizers possess the ebony and ivory keyboard of a piano, the rest of the machine -- a chassis lined with knobs, dials and switches -- looks more like it belongs in a garage instead of a concert hall. Nonetheless, the synthesizer contains the same two components as almost any other instrument: a generator and a resonator. Think of a violin, for example: the strings and the bow are the generator, and the body of the violin is the resonator [source: Rhea]. On a synthesizer, the generator is the oscillator, and the resonator is the filter. For starters, let's look at the basic parts of a classic analog synthesizer. (We'll talk about digital synthesizers later.) Analog synthesizers generate their sounds by manipulating electric voltages. The oscillator shapes the voltage to produce a steady pitch at a given frequency, which determines the basic waveform that will be processed elsewhere in the synthesizer. The oscillator can be controlled by the keys similar to a piano keyboard, a revolving pitch wheel or another tool on the synthesizer's interface. The oscillator feeds the signal to the filter, and the musician turns knobs and dials to set parameters around the frequencies of a sound -- for instance, eliminating and emphasizing specific frequencies like we talked about earlier. The sound passes from the filter to the amplifier, which controls the volume of the sound. The amplifier generally includes a series of envelope controls, which help determine the nuances in volume level over the lifespan of a note. In an analog synthesizer, each of these pitch, tone color and loudness functions is organized into a module, or a unit intended for a specialized purpose. The earliest modules were encased in their own individual housings. Each module creates a particular signal, or processes it in a particular way, and by connecting these modules together, the musician can layer, process and change the sounds into something different. Now that we know about #howsynthesizerswork, let's look back at their history. History Long before the invention of electronic signal processing, some people tried to build machines to emulate human speech. Some early legends of the existence of "Brazen Heads" involved Pope Silvester II (d. 1003 AD), Albertus Magnus (1198–1280), and Roger Bacon (1214–1294). In 1779 the German-Danish scientist Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein won the first prize in a competition announced by the Russian Imperial Academy of Sciences and Arts for models he built of the human vocal tract that could produce the five long vowel sounds (in International Phonetic Alphabet notation: [aː], [eː], [iː], [oː] and [uː]).[5] There followed the bellows-operated "acoustic-mechanical speech machine" of Wolfgang von Kempelen of Pressburg, Hungary, described in a 1791 paper.[6] This machine added models of the tongue and lips, enabling it to produce consonants as well as vowels. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/vegansteven/message

What are the 4 properties of sound waves? Sound waves are often simplified to a description in terms of sinusoidal plane waves, which are characterized by these generic properties: Frequency, or its inverse, wavelength. Amplitude, sound pressure or Intensity. Speed of sound. Direction. Audio oscillator Featured snippet from the web Oscillators generate sound by, er, oscillating. That is, their circuitry basically changes or oscillates between two states very quickly, and just as a vibrating string produces a sound, so the oscillating electronic circuit generates a waveform that can be amplified and used as a sound source. #HowSynthesizersWork BY JEFF HARDER #Synthesizer Components Jay Blakesberg/Workbook Stock/Getty Images Jay Blakesberg/Workbook Stock/Getty Images WHAT MANY MUSIC BUFFS THINK OF WHEN THEY HEAR THE WORD "SYNTHESIZER." Even though many synthesizers possess the ebony and ivory keyboard of a piano, the rest of the machine -- a chassis lined with knobs, dials and switches -- looks more like it belongs in a garage instead of a concert hall. Nonetheless, the synthesizer contains the same two components as almost any other instrument: a generator and a resonator. Think of a violin, for example: the strings and the bow are the generator, and the body of the violin is the resonator [source: Rhea]. On a synthesizer, the generator is the oscillator, and the resonator is the filter. For starters, let's look at the basic parts of a classic analog synthesizer. (We'll talk about digital synthesizers later.) Analog synthesizers generate their sounds by manipulating electric voltages. The oscillator shapes the voltage to produce a steady pitch at a given frequency, which determines the basic waveform that will be processed elsewhere in the synthesizer. The oscillator can be controlled by the keys similar to a piano keyboard, a revolving pitch wheel or another tool on the synthesizer's interface. The oscillator feeds the signal to the filter, and the musician turns knobs and dials to set parameters around the frequencies of a sound -- for instance, eliminating and emphasizing specific frequencies like we talked about earlier. The sound passes from the filter to the amplifier, which controls the volume of the sound. The amplifier generally includes a series of envelope controls, which help determine the nuances in volume level over the lifespan of a note. In an analog synthesizer, each of these pitch, tone color and loudness functions is organized into a module, or a unit intended for a specialized purpose. The earliest modules were encased in their own individual housings. Each module creates a particular signal, or processes it in a particular way, and by connecting these modules together, the musician can layer, process and change the sounds into something different. Now that we know about #howsynthesizerswork, let's look back at their history. History Long before the invention of electronic signal processing, some people tried to build machines to emulate human speech. Some early legends of the existence of "Brazen Heads" involved Pope Silvester II (d. 1003 AD), Albertus Magnus (1198–1280), and Roger Bacon (1214–1294). In 1779 the German-Danish scientist Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein won the first prize in a competition announced by the Russian Imperial Academy of Sciences and Arts for models he built of the human vocal tract that could produce the five long vowel sounds (in International Phonetic Alphabet notation: [aː], [eː], [iː], [oː] and [uː]).[5] There followed the bellows-operated "acoustic-mechanical speech machine" of Wolfgang von Kempelen of Pressburg, Hungary, described in a 1791 paper.[6] This machine added models of the tongue and lips, enabling it to produce consonants as well as vowels. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/vegansteven/message

If you feed a computer enough ice cream flavours or pictures annotated with whether they contain giraffes, the hope is that the computer may eventually learn how to do these things for itself: to generate new potential ice cream flavours or identify the giraffehood status of new photographs. But it’s not necessarily that easy, and the mistakes that machines make when doing relatively silly tasks like ice cream naming or giraffe identification can illuminate how artificial intelligence works when doing more serious tasks as well. In this episode, your hosts Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne interview Dr Janelle Shane, author of You Look Like A Thing And I Love You and person who makes AI do delightfully weird experiments on her blog and twitter feed. We talk about how AI “sees” language, what the process of creating AI humour is like (hint: it needs a lot of human help to curate the best examples), and ethical issues around trusting algorithms. Finally, Janelle helped us turn one of the big neural nets on our own 70+ transcripts of Lingthusiasm episodes, to find out what Lingthusiasm would sound like if Lauren and Gretchen were replaced by robots! This part got so long and funny that we made it into a whole episode on its own, which is technically the February bonus episode, but we didn’t want to make you wait to hear it, so we’ve made it available right now! This bonus episode includes a more detailed walkthrough with Janelle of how she generated the Robo-Lingthusiasm transcripts, and live-action reading of some of our favourite Robo-Lauren and Robo-Gretchen moments. Support Lingthusiasm on Patreon to gain access to the Robo-Lingthusiasm episode and 35 previous bonus episodes. patreon.com/lingthusiasm Also for our patrons, we’ve made a Lingthusiasm Discord server – a private chatroom for Lingthusiasm patrons! Chat about the latest Lingthusiasm episode, share other interesting linguistics links, and geek out with other linguistics fans. (We even made a channel where you can practice typing in the International Phonetic Alphabet, if that appeals to you!) To see the links mentioned in this episode, check out the shownotes page at https://lingthusiasm.com/post/190298658151/lingthusiasm-episode-40-making-machines-learn

Found probably the most useful chart in all of the free world. Down below is a chart of how words and vowels sound. Because I just unleashed a course on UDEMY (or soon to be and you'll see it advertised), I would love to go over how vowels and particular words should sound. Book A Call With Me: https://calendly.com/arseniobuck/45minPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/arseniosesllearningPodcast on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7hdzplWx6xB8mhwDJYiP6fPodcast on TuneIn: Podcast on ListenNote: https://www.listennotes.com/c/778cf3cfd2564ba5b01f693bfebc96de/arsenio-s-esl-podcast/Podcast on CastBox: https://castbox.fm/channel/Arsenio's-ESL-Podcast-id1251433?country=usFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Arseniobuck/?ref=bookmarksYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIzp4EdbJVMhhSnq_0u4ntAWebsite: https://thearseniobuckshow.com/Q & A: ArsenioBuck@icloud.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arsenio-buck-9692a6119/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thearseniobuckshow/?hl=enBuzz sprout: https://www.buzzsprout.com/165390Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/arseniosesllearning)

This episode features an interview with Dr. Robert Englebretson by Dr. Sandra Ruconich, chair of BANA's Outreach Committee. Dr. Englebretson is the recipient of the 2019 Darleen Bogart Braille Excellence Award. Dr. Englebretson is Chair of the Linguistics Department at Rice University in Houston, Texas.  From 2005 to 2010, he served as the International Council on English Braille's U.S. Representative to UEB Committee for Foreign Languages and Linguistics, under the auspices of which he developed IPA Braille. IPA Braille presents an up-to-date braille notation for the symbols of the International Phonetic Alphabet, primarily aimed at braille-reading students and professionals in the language sciences, as well as braille transcribers wishing to produce braille versions of linguistics texts. BANA Awards Darleen Bogart Braille Excellence Award to Dr. Robert Englebretson

Persephone has fun with the International Phonetic Alphabet and sings a song in their conlang. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/candyfortrees/support

(3:00) The back story of Dr. Melody started with living in Taiwan and then in San Antonio, TX, where she was exposed to other languages.   (6:25) When Dr. Melody took voice lessons in high school, she really was inspired by her own voice teachers. “All I wanted to do was do what they did…and help other people.”   (10:35) She tells how she really had a respect for both musical theater and opera.   (13:45) IPA is the International Phonetic Alphabet—an alphabet of symbols that equal a sound. One symbol equals one sound.   Orthographs = symbols that are letters      Phonemes = symbols that equal one sound and one sound only   (15:15) In 1886, British and French teachers formed a group and put out the first version of the IPA chart for any language.   (17:15) The symbols are suggestive of the sounds they represent.  closed o = [ o ] open o = [ ɔ ]   (20:15) IPA can give singers a real sense of clarity in how to pronounce lyrics for singing.   (21:29) IPA allows for quick notation of lyrics.   (23:55) Dr. Melody wanted to sound true to a language so teaching IPA was a natural fit for her.   (25:50) Dr. Melody recommends that voice teachers should learn IPA to be able to offer their students the ability to sing in languages that they themselves don't know.   (28:43) You can get a subscription to IPAsource.com  (This includes spelling of words, the IPA transcription and the word for word translation)   (31:50) The YouTube sources for IPA can be good. Dr. Melody encourages people to find a voice similar in quality and pitch to your own for pronunciation of IPA.   (32:25) Using flashcards for IPA can be super helpful—especially ones that you create yourself.   If you would like to get ahold of Dr. Melody Rich, feel free to Facebook her: Melody Rich or you can email her at: mxr151@shsu.edu   Her website will be up in November 2019 and you can find her there at www.melodyrich.com     If you want to be a part of a community that talks all things vocal, pop over to The Engaging Voice Singers (Facebook). Here is the link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/275720043147345/ You can find this and other episodes on theengingvoice.com and at Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, iHeart radio, iTunes and radio.com   For a free PDF of Ways to Practice the Voice Consistently, please click here and grab your download: https://mailchi.mp/16a4bd648eac/getfreevoiceinfo

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A listener asked why a sentence using the verb "witness" sounded weird, and we found a surprising answer. FOLLOW GRAMMAR GIRL | YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/grammargirl | Twitter: http://twitter.com/grammargirl | Facebook: http://facebook.com/grammargirl | Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/realgrammargirl | Instagram: http://instagram.com/thegrammargirl | LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/grammar-girl | LINKS AND SPONSORS | LaVar Burton Reads http://www.levarburtonpodcast.com/ | Calm http://calm.com/grammar | INTERNATIONAL PHONETIC ALPHABET | https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/sites/default/files/IPA_Kiel_2015.pdf | GRAMMAR POP iOS GAME | Optimized for iPad: http://bit.ly/GrammarPopiPad | For iPad and iPhone: http://bit.ly/GrammarPop | GRAMMAR GIRL BOOKS | http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-girl-book-page | GRAMMAR GIRL IS PART OF THE QUICK AND DIRTY TIPS PODCAST NETWORK. | VOICEMAIL: 833-214-GIRL

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In today's episode I teach you about the International Phonetic Alphabet as it is extremely important to know if you are struggling to learn English pronunciation. Please see the link to the video below. Enjoy :) *** English Pronunciation Made Simple https://www.englishmadesimple.net/speak *** Audio Masterclass – for busy learners & migrants https://www.englishmadesimple.net/masterclass *** IELTS Online – 90 Day Program https://www.englishmadesimple.net/ieltsonline *** Study English in Australia https://www.englishmadesimple.net/study *** PODCAST PACKS https://www.englishmadesimple.net/pack ***YOUTUBE channel English Made Simple Podcast https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCd-97FNYxvF7yvbllwBaEiw ***FACEBOOK Group called ENGLISH MADE SIMPLE (join 500+ learners and migrants) ***INSTAGRAM, follow me on @englishmadesimple ***SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW my podcast on iTunes so I can continue delivering awesome shows (I do a happy dance around the house every time I see a 5-star review ;)Gracias!) iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/cl/podcast/english-made-simple-podcast/id1094817727?l=en Stitcher - http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=85941&refid=stpr Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/englishmadesimple

This interview was made with the aim of getting in practice with the International Phonetic Alphabet since the participants will analyze it and then will make the phonetic transcription of it. Thus, it will improve our listening and speaking skills.

This month is all about phonetics and spelling. Paul offers up a provocative thought experiment that floats the idea of reforming our everyday spelling, replacing it with the International Phonetic Alphabet. To download the accompanying PDF, visit the "In a Manner of Speaking" page on PaulMeier.com.

No guest this week and Joseph and Joseph's poetic conversation drifts off into all kinds of unexpected areas: Dada collage, the Personal Universe Deck, and transcribing poetry in the International Phonetic Alphabet, Christopher's Ricks idea of the anti-pun, and the value and dangers of poetry outreach.

This week, Martha has so much to talk about that she runs out of time, Stephen espouses the virtues of building your own gamedev tools, and Mark names the episode after a Star Trek thing because it's his birthday today so he gets to.Discuss this episode on Reddit using this thread in r/gamedev. Intro to Linguistics for Game Developers 0:03:31 Martha MegarryAudioGame DesignThe Legend of Zelda's Hylian Language - FandomThe Language Creation SocietyA list of constructed languages in video games. - WikipediaMyst's created language, D'ni. - FandomUK Professors Go Primal With 'Far Cry' - Gail Hairston, University of KentuckySIL's Glossary of Linguistics article on sonority scale - SILSkyrim's Dragon Shouts - Matt Miller, Game InformerOmniglot is an encyclopedia of writing systems and languages - OmniglotThe Conlangers Library game list - Conlangers LibraryNo Man's Sky guide: alien races, languages and Monolith puzzles - Jeffrey Parkin, PolygonThe Rosetta Stone in Fez (Pretty obvious clue in hindsight.) - mykwud, YouTubeTwitter Blowup Leads to Sudden Cancellation of Fez II -  Owen Good, KotakuPlaying the Birth and Death of Language in 'Dialect' - Alex Roberts, WaypointScientology's enturbulating lingo -  Britt Peterson, The Boston GlobeKathryn Hymes on Twitter - @chiclashaw, TwitterThe Language Construction Kit, a book Martha recommended, is available for free… - bookDescribing Morphosyntax: A Guide For Field Linguists is the other book Martha r… - bookSpeaking ‘Star Trek': Meet the Man Who Made Up the Klingon Language - Matt Blitz, Popular MechanicsThe Klingon Language Institute is a thing that exists.International Phonetic Alphabet - WikipediaMass Effect: Meeting the Elcor Ambassador - Thieving HIppo, YouTubeGaming's favorite VR mouse uses sign language in the cutest way - Allegra Frank, PolygonCantonese vs. Mandarin - Off the Great Wall, YouTubeFeast Your Eyes on This Beautiful Linguistic Family Tree - Arika Okrent, Mental FlossThe Conlangery Podcast is a neat podcast about linguistics and conlang. - Podcast Making Your Own Tools 0:44:57 Stephen McGregorTools We referenced a few of our episodes during the show: "75% sure.""The Stevechievement."GDC 2017 Special (Part 1)GDC 2017 Special (Part 2)Stephen's tool he recently made for Fingeance. - Stephen McGregor, TwitterTech Toolbox microtalks at GDC 2017 - GDCOur friends at Howling Moon made Super Fast Soft Shadow. - Unity

This week, Martha has so much to talk about that she runs out of time, Stephen espouses the virtues of building your own gamedev tools, and Mark names the episode after a Star Trek thing because it's his birthday today so he gets to.   Discuss this episode on Reddit using this thread in r/gamedev. Intro to Linguistics for game developers 0:03:31 Martha Megarry Category Audio Game Design The Legend of Zelda’s Hylian Language - Fandom wiki The Language Creation Society A list of constructed languages in video games. - Wikipedia Myst’s created language, D’ni. - Fandom wiki “UK Professors Go Primal With 'Far Cry'” - Gail Hairston , University of Kentucky SIL’s Glossary of Linguistics article on sonority scale - SIL “Skyrim’s Dragon Shouts” - Matt Miller, , Game Informer Omniglot is an encyclopedia of writing systems and languages - Omniglot The Conlangers Library game list - Conlangers Library “No Man’s Sky guide: alien races, languages and Monolith puzzles” - Jeffrey Parkin , Polygon The Rosetta Stone in Fez (Pretty obvious clue in hindsight.) - mykwud , YouTube “Twitter Blowup Leads to Sudden Cancellation of Fez II” - Owen Good , Kotaku “Playing the Birth and Death of Language in 'Dialect'” - Alex Roberts , Waypoint “Scientology’s enturbulating lingo” - Britt Peterson , The Boston Globe Kathryn Hymes on Twitter - @chiclashaw , Twitter The Language Construction Kit, a book Martha recommended, is available for free… Describing Morphosyntax: A Guide For Field Linguists is the other book Martha r… “Speaking ‘Star Trek’: Meet the Man Who Made Up the Klingon Language” - Matt Blitz , Popular Mechanics The Klingon Language Institute is a thing that exists. International Phonetic Alphabet - Wikipedia “Mass Effect: Meeting the Elcor Ambassador” - Thieving HIppo , YouTube “Gaming’s favorite VR mouse uses sign language in the cutest way” - Allegra Frank , Polygon “Cantonese vs. Mandarin” - Off the Great Wall , YouTube “Feast Your Eyes on This Beautiful Linguistic Family Tree” - Arika Okrent , Mental Floss The Conlangery Podcast is a neat podcast about linguistics and conlang. - Podcast Making your own tools 0:44:57 Stephen McGregor Category Tools We referenced a few of our episodes during the show: "75% sure." "The Stevechievement." GDC 2017 Special (Part 1) GDC 2017 Special (Part 2) Stephen’s tool he recently made for Fingeance. - Stephen McGregor , Twitter Tech Toolbox microtalks at GDC 2017 - GDC Our friends at Howling Moon made Super Fast Soft Shadow. - Unity Asset Store

English writing is hugely inconsistent: is “ough” pronounced as in cough, though, through, thought, rough, plough, or thorough? And once you start adding in other languages with different conventions and writing systems, things get even more complicated. How’s a person supposed to know whether to pronounce “j” as in Jane, Juan, Johan, Jeanne, or Jing? In the 1800s, linguists decided to create a single alphabet that could represent any sound spoken in any human language. After several revisions and competing standards, we now have the modern International Phonetic Alphabet with 107 letters, 52 diacritics, and a surprisingly passionate fanbase including linguists, musicians, and people who like cool symbols. In episode 6 of Lingthusiasm, your hosts Lauren and Gretchen talk about the history of the IPA, how it works, and some of the fun linguistics games and stories that have arisen around the IPA. For more information visit the show page: http://lingthusiasm.com/post/159237203511/lingthusiasm-episode-6-all-the-sounds-in-all-the

Foundations of Amateur Radio Today we have a standard for our on-air phonetic alphabet - technically it's called a spelling alphabet, but I digress. As you should be aware if you're a licensed Amateur, we use the so-called standard phonetic alphabet. It's used and defined by several organisations, including the International Telecommunications Union, the International Civil Aviation Organisation and NATO. It should come as no surprise that each of those organisations defines their own alphabet. It just so happens that today each of these definitions is the same, but that hasn't always been the case. In the United Kingdom, Alpha went through Apples, Ack, Ace, Able an Affirm. In the United States, Alpha has been Able, Affirmative, Afirm, Able, Alfa. In Amateur Radio we've heard America, Amsterdam and even Australia. All that for just the letter that we spell as Alpha. If that's not enough, try on Adams, Adam, Anatole, Anton, Ancona, Antonio, Anna, Aarne, Adana, Aveiro, Amor, Ana and Avala. No wonder we have a few different spellings that we hear on air when we're busy spelling our callsign to the other station. Where does that leave you? Well, the ACMA specifies in their amateur operating procedures the International Phonetic Alphabet and it is recommended for use by amateur station licensees. Note that it's recommended, not mandated. My best advice is to learn and love the standard phonetic alphabet. It's been almost standard since 1956. That's not to say you won't hear me call Victor King Six Florida London America Boston on occasion, when I'm trying to talk to some station that hasn't a clue that I have a legitimate callsign with a four letter suffix and they need to be sure that I know that it's real. The recommended procedure when dealing with a Pirate is to go silent. You won't believe how many stations went quiet whilst I was working my latest contest. Those four letters do cause some grief, but I understand, it was only introduced recently, as close as 2005, so it's understandable that not everyone has heard of an Australian Foundation call, let alone get their head around the standard phonetic alphabet. I'm Onno Vice Kilogramme, Soxisix, Frank Loves Amsterdam Beer

Daniel asks about memorizing the international phonetic alphabet. I describe how I would tackle this project, using mnemonics based on the ways that the characters look. What do you want to learn? Leave your question at http://MasterOfMemory.com/. Music credit: Maurice Ravel’s String Quartet, 2nd movement, performed by the US Army Band.

In Part Two of this series on Diacritics, Phil Thompson and Eric Armstrong discuss the intricacies of diacritic symbols and what they mean when applied to vowel and consonant symbols of the IPA. The guys follow along with the list of diacritic marks on the Wikipedia page for the International Phonetic Alphabet. The episode begins at laminal diacritic, which Wikipedia classifies as part of the “articulation diacritics”, and continue on to discuss “co-articulation diacritics” and “suprasegmentals”.

Though Phil and Eric had intended to cover all the diacritical marks in the IPA in this podcast, they just couldn’t do it. In fact, Eric’s recorder stopped recording after 45 minutes, though they kept talking for 15 more minutes... so this is merely an introduction to diacritics, not an exhaustive review of all of them. For reference, the boys work their way through the symbols following the order that the wikipedia article on the International Phonetic Alphabet’s section on diacritics takes, so you might want to follow along.