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What sounds is this text asking for?

Paste any text — a target word list, a homework sheet, a chapter book passage — and see what sounds it's asking for, by articulation group and acquisition age. Everything runs in your browser; nothing leaves the page.

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What this measures

Looks up each word in the CMU pronouncing dictionary, counts every phoneme by group (stop, fricative, etc.) and acquisition age (Crowe & McLeod, 2020), and tracks where each phoneme falls in the word.

Where it stops

It doesn't know your client's phonology, dialect, or co-articulation patterns. It can't tell you which sounds to target — only which are present. Words outside the demo dictionary are skipped (and named).

Why this beats asking an LLM

Ask Claude "what sounds are in this passage?" and you'll get a confident summary with no audit trail. Here, every count is reproducible from the table — you can see the math and disagree with it.

Sources. Acquisition ages: Crowe & McLeod (2020). Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (demo subset). Related reading: Articulation & Phonology.

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