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Most
people have heard “Alpha Bravo Charlie” and know
it comes from a spelling alphabet. The ICAO
(International Civil Aviation Organization)
spelling alphabet, also known as the NATO phonetic
alphabet or international
radiotelephony spelling alphabet, is the most
popular spelling alphabet. It is frequently
referred to as "the phonetic alphabet" but
spelling alphabets are different from phonetic
transcription systems like the International
Phonetic Alphabet.
The
ICAO Spelling Alphabet is very useful when
using your speech recognition software "spell
it" feature. The program does not always
understand your letter pronunciation but will
react correctly to the phonetic alphabet very
easily. You can input a word it fails to
recognize quickly.
Suppose
you say "antic" and the voice recognition
software responds with "frantic" or "ranting".
Instruct it to "spell it" and then say
quickly: Alpha November India Tango Charlie.
It never fails to get what you mean.
The
ICAO alphabet enables pronunciation and
understanding by anyone transmitting and
receiving voice messages by radio or telephone
whatever their own language. This increases
safety especially when lives might be endangered
due to transmission static. It is used by
police, armed forces, pilots and anyone such as
car dealers who need to communicate license
plate numbers accurately over the phone.
Printable Spelling Alphabet
List
To learn the phonetic
alphabet it helps to break it down into
sections and commit four at a time to memory
with repetition. You can print the list
to help study.
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Alpha Bravo Charlie Delta
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Echo Foxtrot Golf Hotel
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India Juliet Kilo Lima
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Mike November Oscar Papa
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Quebec Romeo Sierra Tango
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Uniform Victor Whiskey
X-ray
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Yankee Zulu
Call
up the "spell it" function with your speech
recognition software and practice. In no time
you will sound very professional. It is also
very useful when using the phone describing
car numbers etc.
A
Phonetic Alphabet list for printing from a pdf
document can be found here: Spelling Alphabet for speech
recognition. Pin it up near your computer
(or
phone) and with your headphones on you
are ready to sound like a pro.
A video to use in
learning the phonetic alphabet can be found
here Alpha
Bravo Charlie
A video version for
the numbers
used with this international NATO alphabet is
also available. Running through the videos
repeating the letters as the flashcards come
up will give you a fluent competence with this
system.
Printable
NATO Phonetic Alphabet List
Letter
phonetic Pronounced
A
Alpha
Al-fah
B
Bravo
Brah-voh
C
Charlie Char-lee
D
Delta
Dell-tah
E
Echo
Eck-oh
F
Foxtrot
Foks-trot
G
Golf
Golf
H
Hotel
Hoh-tel
I
India
In-dee-ah
J
Juliet
Jew-lee-et
K
Kilo
Key-loh
L
Lima
Lee-mah
M
Mike
Mike
N
November
No-vem-ber
O
Oscar
Oss-car
P
Papa
Pah-pah
Q
Quebec
Keh-beck
R
Romeo
Row-me-oh
S
Sierra
See-air-rah
T
Tango
Tang-go
U
Uniform
Yoo-nih-form
V
Victor
Vik-tore
W
Whiskey
Wiss-key
X
Xray
Ecks-ray
Y
Yankee
Yang-key
Z
Zulu
Zoo-loo
Spelling Alphabet Numbers
Number
Pronounced
1
One
Wun
2
Two
Too
3
Three
Tree
4
Four
Fow-er
5
Five
Fife
6
Six
six
7
Seven
Sev-en
8
Eight
Ait
9
Nine
Nin-er
0
Zero
Zee-ro
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