English pronunciation, made visible.
SayNative turns any English text into a visual pronunciation guide — every word annotated sound by sound, with stress, syllables, silent letters and the rhythm of natural connected speech.
Who it's for
Learners who can read English but aren't sure how it should sound; teachers preparing reading material; parents helping children decode tricky words; and anyone curious why knight and night sound the same. Paste your text, and read along with the marks.
How it works
SayNative is powered by a grapheme-to-phoneme (G2P) engine that predicts pronunciation algorithmically rather than looking words up in a fixed list. The models are trained on the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary: a joint n-gram model handles open-vocabulary words, while decision trees handle function words and align each sound back to the letters that spell it. That alignment is what lets the tool mark silent letters, underline digraphs like th, and place stress on the right part of the word.
Because the output is predicted, unfamiliar names and rare words get a best-effort guess — those are flagged with a small ? so you know to double-check. Words with more than one pronunciation (like read) are marked with a ².
The accent
Transcriptions follow General American English, including natural connected-speech features: flapped t (as in water), weak forms of function words, and linking between words.
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