the real-time MRI IPA charts

We have been collecting real-time MRI data from phoneticians producing the sounds of the International Phonetic Alphabet, together with standard sentences and texts. You may access the collected data by clicking on the pictures below.


A description of the database is given in the paper:


Asterios Toutios, Sajan Goud Lingala, Colin Vaz, Jangwon Kim, John Esling, Patricia Keating, Matthew Gordon, Dani Byrd, Louis Goldstein, Krishna Nayak, Shrikanth Narayanan, "Illustrating the production of the International Phonetic Alphabet sounds using fast real-time magnetic resonance imaging", Interspeech, San Francisco, CA, 2016.


You may download the paper and its asoociated presentation.


John Esling

Pat Keating

Matthew Gordon

Dani Byrd

Dani Byrd (2005 version)