velar is an allophone of and the long vowels are allophones of the short vowels, but are shown for clarity. A rough transcription of the audio sample is: 2:1 2 3 4 5 6 7 The Standard Italian pronunciation of the text is: 2:1 2 3 4 5 6 7 See also Italian orthography Italian language Italian grammar Syntactic gemination Wikipedia help page for IPA for Italian – includes English approximations Italian pronunciation guide at Wiktionary References Bibliography External links The online edition (2016) of the Dizionario d'ortografia e di pronunzia (DOP), a pronouncing dictionary of standard Italian Italian language Italic phonologies