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Cheatsheet for typing phonetic symbols with the IPA Keyboard Layout on Windows 7 – the ultimate training…
…using animated .gifs. Slower? Compact: 0.25sec, 0.5sec, 0.75sec, 1sec, 1.5sec, 2sec, 3sec, 4sec, 5sec, 6sec, 7sec, 8sec, 9sec, 10sec.
This is taken straight from the great documentation of this great Phonetic symbols Windows keyboard layout by SILS international, but needed a bit of massaging to support hands-free lookup via display on one screen of your dual screen system, while you learn or demo the keyboard to the class). Users without dual screen (including students) are better off with the slideshow below in which they can stop the images on any page:
The IPA MSKLC can produce both regular Roman characters and transcriptions with phonetic symbols by employing certain “dead keys” that can be combined with regular keys. Just and like our default LRC keyboard us-international .
Your first must select the keyboard like so. (Icelandic is suitable since it is not used for other purposes much). In the LRC, you must wait until we upgrade to Windows7.
Keyboard layouts and IME’s on LRC Windows 7 PCs
You can change the input language using the language toolbar which appears next to the notification area in the lower right of the task bar.
Note that many languages need not be listed since their characters can be typed, Windows-wide, using keyboard shortcuts of the English-US (international extended) keyboard layout.
Some installed input methods benefit from having keyboard overlays which have been installed on some computer. Other input methods allow for drawing characters, e.g. in Japanese or Mandarin, which works better with the Wacom tablet installed on PC01 and PC02 than with a mice.
Many languages have more than one keyboard/input method. After changing to your language on the language toolbar, you can switch from the language’s default keyboard layout to another by clicking on keyboard icon behind the 2-letter language abbreviation.
Below is a comprehensive list of all layouts that are available to you:
Foreign Language Character Input on Windows XP in the LRC
The LRC offers the following foreign language characters writing support:
American English | us international | not needed | us-int |
Arabic | Google;MS;MS-maren;fontboard | maybe later, now osk | demo |
British English | us international | not needed | us-int |
Dutch | us international | not needed | us-int |
Farsi | Google;MS | maybe later, now osk | demo |
French | us international | not needed | us-int |
German | us international | not needed | us-int |
Greek | Google;MS | maybe later, now osk | demo |
Italian | us international | not needed | us-int |
Japanese | MS | not needed | |
Korean | MS | maybe later, now osk | demo |
Mandarin | MS;pinyinput | not needed | pinyin |
Portuguese (Brazilian) | us international | not needed | us-int |
Russian | Google;MS | maybe later, now osk | demo |
Spanish | us international | not needed | us-int |
The support is best accessed from the “international toolbar”, like so:
You can also use the windows on-screen keyboard to input non-Western characters on a computer that has not the corresponding keyboard overlay stickers. In the small-group workspaces, which have writing pads, you can also use the MS-Handwriting IME for East-Asian languages.