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Convert audio recording of word to IPA representation
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The other thing to keep in mind is that not only is IPA language-dependent, it's also convention dependent http://phonetic-blog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/false-alarm.html. It's really just a tool to help linguists communicate not a tool for exact representation of speech sounds.
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