IPA in LaTeX

The tipa package is by far the most common method of providing IPA (and other phonetic symbol) capabilities to LaTeX documents. To use this package, include the following in your document's preamble:

\usepackage{tipa}

Using TIPA

The TIPA Manual provides extensive documentation on the package, including a useful list of phonetic symbols and their correspondnig TIPA input(s). Perhaps the most common way of using the package is to include phonetc symbol inputs inside a textipa{} environment. For example:

Here is \textipa{["s@mTIN]}.

will produce the following output:

Use of this package is fairly straightfoward, and the manual will be of great help for looking up symbols.

Other Hints

If you use the textipa environment frequently, you may wish to make a shorter name for it. Something like \newcommand{\ipa}{\textipa} will work for this and allow you to use \ipa{} instead of \textipa{}.

If you frequently surround transcriptions with brackets ([]) or slashes (//), you may wish to create commands to make this easier. For example, I often define something like \newcommand{\nt}[1]{\textipa{[#1]}} for narrow transcriptions (conventionally surrounded in brackets), and then \nt{o} produces [o] as output. Similarly, you could define \newcommand{\wt}[1]{\textipa{/#1/}} for wide transcriptions, and \wt{i} would produce /i/.