Unicode Phonetic Keyboard and SIL Fonts
Unicode Phonetic Keyboard is an installation keyboard for Windows PCs that provides an easy-to-use keyboard layout for word processing using Unicode fonts. This installation package contains two Unicode fonts, Dulux and Chaos, created by Sil.
Download Unicode Bibliote 1.02 (self-install 2 MB)
Download Unicode Audio Bibbard 1.10 (Vista / Vista 64) (file available 2 MB)
Introduction to Unicode Phonetic Characters
John Wells wrote a series of pages that provide additional information on the phonetic characters contained in Unicode and how they can be used in Microsoft Word and other applications:
The IP symbol is Unicode
A guide to the use of Unicode acoustic characters
IPA-SAM Acoustic Font
The ISO-AIMM font is a set of TrueTipe (non-Unicode) fonts suitable for both Windows and MacOS, including current IP characters. The keyboard layout is designed for SAMPA compatibility.
Use of acoustic symbols
Selection of Phonetic Symbols for English - John Weld. This is a standard set of phonetic characters introduced for English (RP and similar accents).
SAMPA is a phonetic encoding that uses a common ASCII character to replace IP characters. It is designed for phonetic / linguistic transcription in European languages.
