🦜 IPA Learning App

A Streamlit app for learning and practicing the 35 symbols of the English International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).

⛓️‍💥 Useful Links

Wikimedia Commons' General Phonetics collection

Interactive IPA Chart

🧩 Quiz

Modes:

• Easy: 5 questions with 3 answer options, ideal for beginners.
• Medium: 18 questions with 5 answer options, covering about half of the IPA symbols.
• Hard: 35 questions with 5 answer options, covering the full IPA symbol set.

🚀 Run locally

Prerequisites

• Python 3.14 or newer
• uv

Setup

1. Clone the repository and open its folder:

   git clone https://github.com/sofiaoksin/IPA-app.git
   cd IPA-app

2. Install the project dependencies:

   uv sync

3. Start the Streamlit app:

uv run streamlit run src/main.py

4. Open the local URL shown in the terminal, usually http://localhost:8501.

🤝 Audio credits

The audio clips are the work of Peter Isotalo and User:Denelson83. They are available under a free and/or copyleft licence through Wikimedia Commons' General Phonetics collection.

💡 Future improvements

Just a few ideas

• Add more IPA symbols
• Targeted learning: Store learned symbols and unlearned symbols in different folders
• Add more learning modes
  • Memory
  • Connect