The International Phonetic Alphabet: An Interactive Multimedia Demonstration

This CD-ROM, from Paul Meier and Eric Armstrong, is their interactive demonstration of the International Phonetic Alphabet. Armstrong's design of the interactive chart allows you to click on any symbol to instantly hear Meier's voicing of it, as you read more detailed information about that symbol. It plays only on a computer. If you are studying accents and dialects with Paul Meier Dialect Services' books or booklets, available on this site, and want to hear one of the "signature sounds" in isolation, or in comparison with other sounds, you will find this CD-ROM an invaluable aid. Vowels, consonants, ingressives, suprasegmentals, intonation, diacritics, ejectives, implosives, diphthongs, and clicks are demonstrated.