Description: LED-A is a web app for calculating linguistic distances with Levenshtein distance using phonetic IPA transcriptions.
Transcriptions should be in IPA/Unicode, see the IPA keyboard here .
The data sets on this page can freely be downloaded and used to try out LED-A.
The Dutch word hart 'heart' is pronounced as [ærtə] in the West Flemish dialect of Oostende (in Belgium) and as [hɑʀt] in the Limburg dialect of Meerssen (in The Netherlands). With the example file the distance between the two respective realizations can be calculated in LED-A. The transcriptions were taken from the Reeks Nederlandse Dialectatlassen (see below).