How to type a supplied English IPA transcription.

Write down the target sequence θ, ɪ, ŋ. Open Smart IPA, turn Smart IPA suggestions off and type []. Select IPA English from Keyboard, check that suggestions are off again, and leave Shift and Alt Gr off. Place the caret between the brackets. This keeps literal punctuation separate from the specialized layout’s mapped symbols.

The English label does not make this an automatic English transcription system. The layout includes a wider legacy inventory, and English varieties differ in their sound patterns and transcription conventions. In real work, keep your dictionary, course convention or analysis beside the editor. Here the symbols are explicitly supplied, so we can judge whether the typing matches without judging anyone’s accent.

Find the large θ glyph at the on-screen key with the small Roman hint t and click it. Read the editor before adding another character. θ is the voiceless member of the dental-fricative pair in the IPA chart. The nearby direct mapping at d produces ð, which differs in voicing and would not match this task.

The Roman hint identifies a key position; it does not say that every English letter t should be transcribed θ. Learning a few positions can make repeated entry quicker, but the large inserted glyph remains the thing to check. If your physical keyboard arrangement differs from the displayed layout, on-screen selection avoids an unnecessary guessing step.

Click ɪ at the i position, then ŋ at the m position. You should now have [θɪŋ]. The vowel ɪ has its own chart position and is not an ordinary small i in a different font. The final ŋ represents a velar nasal; treating it as the spelling combination ng would confuse a segment symbol with two ordinary letters.

Re-read the line from left to right against the supplied sequence. If a character is wrong, select that character and choose the intended on-screen key to replace it. There is no benefit in adding stress, length or other detail that the task did not specify. A more elaborate-looking line is not necessarily a more faithful transcription.

Choose Download text and open i2speak.txt in a Unicode-capable text editor. Confirm both brackets and all three supplied symbols. This is the same text sequence you should see in the browser; an editable text file is useful for transferring a note into a document or retaining the symbols independently of the page’s visual styling.

When the sample belongs to real study material, add its context in the receiving document: the word or utterance, language variety, source and transcription convention. Use square brackets for phonetic notation and slashes for a phonemic analysis of a specified system. Do not switch brackets simply because a line is short, broad or easy to read.