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Any 'pronouncing' sites on the Net?


tmember April 06, 2010 11:25 PM

Any 'pronouncing' sites on the Net?
 
Does anyone know of any sites on the Net that has tons of Spanish words where you can just click on a word and get the pronunciation? All I'm looking for is pronunciations, not definitions, something quick and easy. :)

irmamar April 07, 2010 04:09 AM

Well, there aren't tons of words here, but a few. But I think it could be interesting. ;)

You can listen many words in wordreference.com :)

tmember April 07, 2010 09:22 AM

I'm not sure what that is. Any instructions?

Rusty April 07, 2010 09:53 AM

Try acapela. You select a voice (scroll down for Spanish, and select whether you want to listen to a guy or a gal). Then, type in the text you want the voice to say.
The pronunciation is very good.

If you want one word at a time: http://www.spanishdict.com/translate/

tmember April 07, 2010 02:01 PM

In Acapela I don't see a way to change the voice to Spanish (they're all English). They all pronounced 'futbol' as 'futebowl'. And I didn't find an audio for the dictionary.

Rusty April 07, 2010 03:57 PM

For Acapela, there's a scroll bar on the list of voices. The English voices are at the top of the list. There are several different voices further down the list.

For spanishdict.com, the audio icon appears to the right of the translated words, or at least that's what I see using IE and FireFox.

tmember April 07, 2010 04:13 PM

I'm using Firefox and in Acapela I see no choices but the 5 English voices in the Menu. There's no menu with a Spanish option.

Rusty April 07, 2010 04:23 PM

I just tried it in Firefox, and I still see the scroll bar. Make sure you're seeing a scroll bar. It has an up arrow at the top of the bar. It has a down arrow at the bottom. There's a white bar in between the two arrows. In the white bar, there is a blue square. Either click and drag the blue square, or click on the arrows.
The 'Demos & More' link will reload the page, if needed. The initial screen shows no scroll bar. You have to click on the down arrow icon to the right of 'English (US) - Heather'.

adfsdu June 10, 2010 10:02 PM

You can install a text-to-speech software and a Spanish voice engine on your computer, by default, there is only Microsoft Anna voice in English on Windows 7. Then you can just click on a word and get the pronunciation even mp3 audio files.

JPablo June 10, 2010 10:29 PM

Not sure if someone gave this already,
http://es.forvo.com/languages/
But I have used it here and there and it's helpful with one word questions. :)

wafflestomp June 10, 2010 10:49 PM

I have an iPhone app called "iTranslate" and it has a voice translation feature. You can pick if you want a Latin American female/male or a Castillian male/female

irmamar June 11, 2010 12:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JPablo (Post 86107)
Not sure if someone gave this already,
http://es.forvo.com/languages/
But I have used it here and there and it's helpful with one word questions. :)

Thanks, Jpablo. I didn't know it. Very useful. :)

JPablo June 11, 2010 01:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by irmamar (Post 86121)
Thanks, Jpablo. I didn't know it. Very useful. :)

You're welcome.
I believe the BBC has one site for "English" pronunciations, as in the "standard ones" for any and all parts of the globe, names of important people, you name it.
I bet there is some similar "pronunciation" bible somewhere for Spanish/Castilian... and the other varieties of Spanish... :)

CrOtALiTo June 12, 2010 01:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tmember (Post 78692)
Does anyone know of any sites on the Net that has tons of Spanish words where you can just click on a word and get the pronunciation? All I'm looking for is pronunciations, not definitions, something quick and easy. :)

It's site the correct pronunciation.
Net almost isn't used for the browsers.:)


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