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cmudict-ipa

CMU Pronouncing Dictionary converted to IPA by Alexander Piperski

cmudict-0.7b-ipa.txt contains all the entries from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (version 0.7b; http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cmudict) automatically converted to the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). Each line consists of a headword and its transcription(s) separated by a tab symbol; variant forms are separated by ", ".

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Apart from the standard Arpabet to IPA conversion rules (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arpabet), the following ones were observed:

brown-frequency-list-with-ipa.txt contains 33862 words occurring in the Brown Corpus of American English (https://archive.org/details/BrownCorpus) sorted by their frequency of occurrence. This list may be of use to English learners willing to pronounce most frequent words correctly.