Instructions to convert phonetic symbols to the spreadsheet  8/17/2006


Step One:  print out a copy of the phonetic symbols cross reference guide

Step Two:  download a copy of the spreadsheet


Step Three:  For each phonetic symbol shown at the TOP of each line (shown in the left side of step one), you will enter in the corresponding text representation as shown on the right side of step one.   The text representation will be entered in spreadsheet columns 'K' thru 'N'.

In other words, you will be matching the symbols to the text representation, and entering it into the spreadsheet.

Note that each combination can have from one to four different symbols, and hence four different text represtatations.   And each combination of symbols can be up to three different groups.

We have included examples below: