XENOGLOT
voice your voice rec

1voicetap a preset to hear it

engine

built-in is a synthesizer: instant, every slider works, and it uses your recordings. natural is a neural voice (Piper, public-domain voices) that reads your language's sounds with a light English accent. It downloads once (63 MB), then works offline. Growl and breathiness only change the built-in voice.

character
fine-tune the voice

2sound inventorytap to add or remove

Green = in your language. The big letter is how it’s written, and the key it sits on in your font. ▶ plays it, rec and file replace it with your own voice.

3your own voiceoptional

Say every sound below in order, with about half a second of silence between each. Xenoglot cuts the take into single sounds. If your browser blocks the microphone here, record on your phone and use upload a take.

hold it, about half a secondkeep it short, no vowel after

4how many sounds?english uses 44

Each distinct sound is a phoneme. English has about 24 consonants and 20 vowel sounds. The smallest known language, Rotokas, works with 11. Most use 20 to 40. Fewer sounds just means longer words.

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english
11
smallest known (rotokas)
20–40
typical
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yours
the 44 sounds of english
readylocal processing