Lately I've noticed that a lot of people have begun to a unkown (to me) set of symbols to represent different sound. For instance they use { for the a in cat, what's the name of this system and where can I find some material about it.
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It's called X-SAMPA -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xsampa
Look at the table of symbols with corresponding audio files.
Look at the table of symbols with corresponding audio files.