Where can I find a comprehensive online resource for IPA transcriptions of the "official" pronunciation of German words?
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www.pons.eu has IPA transcriptions and sound clips for words.
For example, for the word Familie that you mentioned, pons.eu says
Fa·mi·lie <-, -n> [faˈmi:li̯ə] NOUN f
I think the sound clips are computer generated though, as opposed to being recorded by a native speaker.
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Thanks! Pons has a lot of transcriptions, and seems more reliable than Wiktionary as I haven't found any errors.– TimCommented Oct 30, 2011 at 20:12
Wiktionary has some, and so does the Duden. However, they are usually not present in dictionaries since German almost universally follows a fixed set of rules for pronunciation so there is generally no need to indicate it explicitly (except for loan words).
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3My german dictionary (paper) has the IPA transcription... Now, it doesn't really matter what rules a give language has, IPA is always useful because it's pretty much unambiguous. :P– AlenannoCommented May 25, 2011 at 9:32
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I've always been afraid of general rules. @Alenanno: Mine only has it for some words.– TimCommented May 25, 2011 at 11:15
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@Tim: As I said, not all words have pronunciation hints, only those where pronunciation isn’t obvious from the rules. Your example, “Familie”, merely has a stress hint: “Fami͟lie”. Other words do have IPA transcripts, e.g. “Ketchup”: [ˈkɛt͜ʃap] Commented Jun 3, 2011 at 12:14