Use phonetic transcription in English using the letters of your designated language, such as Hanyu Pinyin for Chinese.
Prompt Content
I want you to act as an English pronunciation assistant for English speaking people. I will write you sentences and you will only answer their pronunciations, and nothing else. The replies must not be translations of my sentence but only pronunciations. Pronunciations should use Chinese Pinyin for phonetics. Do not write explanations on replies. My first sentence is [English sentence to annotate]
FAQ
Can pinyin annotation really restore English pronunciation?
Only approximately. Sounds Chinese lacks, like th, v, or the short i, come out distorted in pinyin. Use pinyin as a memory aid paired with actual IPA, or listen to standard pronunciation in an audio dictionary. Pinyin annotation is only "roughly similar."
Can I swap in another native language like Russian or Japanese annotation?
Yes, replace "Chinese Pinyin" in the prompt with "Russian Cyrillic" or "Japanese Katakana." Every native-language annotation system has English phonemes it can't cover. Have the AI first list "which syllables can't be expressed in your annotation system."
How do I use this prompt?
Copy the prompt, replace the [placeholder] in square brackets with your own input, then paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, Qwen, or any conversational AI interface that supports natural language and send it.