VOA Pronunciation Guide
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Type of site | Pronouncing dictionary |
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| Available in | American English |
| Owner | Federal government of the United States |
| URL | pronounce |
| Launched | 2000 |
Content license | Work of the United States government |
| OCLC number | 47225725 |
The VOA Pronunciation Guide (or Voice of America Pronunciation Guide) is an online pronunciation reference system by Voice of America (VOA) which provides the General American English pronunciations of names, places, and things found in international news reports,[1] especially global political figures. Entries of the guide each contain a phonetic pronunciation, its country of origin, and a link to an audio pronunciation.[2] It is hosted as a website as part of the VOA network run by the United States government.[3]
It emerged in 2000 as a digitization effort by VOA broadcaster Jim Tedder of the prior reference system of physical notecards, although the guide uses pronunciation respellings instead of the International Phonetic Alphabet transcriptions of the notecards. Originally intended exclusively for newsreaders, the guide soon attracted usage by the general public.[4] Reference Reviews deemed the guide to be "a very useful service in providing authoritative pronunciations of names in the news",[2] and it was endorsed by NPR audio journalism trainer Jerome Socolovsky[5] and NPR reference librarian Kee Malesky.[6] Opinio Juris remarked the website could make one "sound like a well-seasoned diplomat".[7]
References
- ^ Cowan 1995, p. 36875.
- ^ a b Landesman 2002.
- ^ Griffith 2004.
- ^ Gimpel 2005.
- ^ Socolovsky 2019.
- ^ Schumacher-Matos 2011.
- ^ McGuinness 2009.
Bibliography
- Cowan, Geoffrey (18 July 1995). "Voice of America; Development Office; VOA Computerized Pronunciation Guide Project Development". Federal Register. 60 (137). Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration: 36875–36876.
- Gimpel, Lee (2005-09-30). "VOA Maps a World of Tricky Pronunciations". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2026-03-06.
- Griffith, Jackson (2004-06-03). "VOA Pronunciation Guide". Sacramento News & Review. Retrieved 2026-03-10.
- Landesman, Betty (2002-07-01). "Voice of America Pronunciation Guide". Reference Reviews. 16 (7): 16. doi:10.1108/rr.2002.16.7.16.340. ISSN 0950-4125.
- McGuinness, Peggy (February 2, 2009). "You Too Can Sound Like a Radio Host: Or How Not to Humiliate Yourself in Front of Your Class". Opinio Juris. Retrieved March 6, 2026.
- Schumacher-Matos, Edward (2011-09-26). "You Say Tomato, I Say Tomahto". WBUR. Retrieved 2026-03-10.
- Socolovsky, Jerome (2019-04-30). "Pronounce like a polyglot: saying foreign names on air". NPR. Retrieved 2026-03-06.
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