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flonnebonne) wrote2008-05-28 06:41 pm
flonnebonne) wrote2008-05-28 06:41 pm
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Let there be English speakingness
Acapela Text to Speech Synthesis Demo
Type in some text, hit a button, and voila! the program will say whatever you wrote with almost natural (if emotionless) pronunciation and intonation. What's cool about this particular program is that it's got quite a few different language settings, so you can listen to German and Swedish and Arabic and so on! And while it doesn't have, say Australian English, it does have Canadian French for some reason! You can also find out what a keyboard mash sounds like! alifae;flijsefl;jaes;lfjsfe;!!!!!1
I probably wouldn't recommend this site to ESL students because it still has too many glitches, but you can see how cool this technology might be in a few years!
Howjsay.com
British English pronunciation dictionary. No definitions, just pronunciation. You can search for both words and sentences (it'll find the closest match).
Mwwaah, it used to be that you just had to hover your mouse over a word and a you'd hear a soundbyte, but now you have to click on a word and load up a new page. Puuuuuuh. But it's still a pretty cool site. For some reason "kamehameha" is an entry in there.
Type in some text, hit a button, and voila! the program will say whatever you wrote with almost natural (if emotionless) pronunciation and intonation. What's cool about this particular program is that it's got quite a few different language settings, so you can listen to German and Swedish and Arabic and so on! And while it doesn't have, say Australian English, it does have Canadian French for some reason! You can also find out what a keyboard mash sounds like! alifae;flijsefl;jaes;lfjsfe;!!!!!1
I probably wouldn't recommend this site to ESL students because it still has too many glitches, but you can see how cool this technology might be in a few years!
Howjsay.com
British English pronunciation dictionary. No definitions, just pronunciation. You can search for both words and sentences (it'll find the closest match).
Mwwaah, it used to be that you just had to hover your mouse over a word and a you'd hear a soundbyte, but now you have to click on a word and load up a new page. Puuuuuuh. But it's still a pretty cool site. For some reason "kamehameha" is an entry in there.
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We could go to Aizu if we have time (and energy :/). Round 1 sounds cool. *__* Is that far from you? Would your boyfriend and friends be interested in doing that with us?
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Round 1 is about 10 minutes walk away from Koriyama station, which is 15 minutes away from my town by train. So it's not too far. If my boyfriend or friends decide to come along they can maybe pick us up from the station. They'll probably be interested in going to Round 1, but I know a lot of them will be really busy around that time (I'm not the only one leaving Japan in August).
Anyway, we can pretty much play it by ear from here. I'll get in touch with my homestay family in Aizu in July, and if they're free we'll meet up with them; if not, no biggy. :)
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