Phonetics: Applications (ref: Wikipedia)

Application of phonetics include:

§  forensic phonetics: the use of phonetics (the science of speech) for forensic (legal) purposes.

§  Speech Recognition: the analysis and transcription of recorded speech by a computer system.

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NB: It may be of interest to Engineering students that ASCII and keyboard transliterations are available:

• Several systems have been developed that map the IPA symbols to ASCII characters. Notable systems include Kirshenbaum, Arpabet, SAMPA, and X-SAMPA. The usage of mapping systems in on-line text has to some extent been adopted in the context input methods, allowing convenient keying of IPA characters that would be otherwise unavailable on standard keyboard layouts.

Dictionaries

Many British dictionaries, including learner's dictionaries such as the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary and the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary, now use the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent the pronunciation of words.

Did you know?

Using an Edison phonograph, Ludimar Hermann investigated the spectral properties of vowels and consonants.