jellyfish Triglot Groupie Japan Joined 4786 days ago 50 posts - 70 votes Speaks: English, German*, Japanese Studies: Thai, Persian, Russian
| Message 289 of 672 15 February 2012 at 1:22pm | IP Logged |
Forvo is quite good for when you just need the pronunciation of a single word.
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aloysius Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6241 days ago 226 posts - 291 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, German Studies: French, Greek, Italian, Russian
| Message 290 of 672 15 February 2012 at 4:20pm | IP Logged |
Parallel texts and audiobooks simplify life a lot when you need to know the meaning,
intonation and pronunciation of what you're reading. As for the speech recognition
problem you can use transcripts until you become more advanced:
Russian simplified news
Euronews in Russian
Having said that, being a computational linguist at heart, I'm all for playing around
with language technology tools.
//aloysius
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Tecktight Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member United States Joined 4977 days ago 227 posts - 327 votes Speaks: English*, Serbian Studies: German, Russian, Estonian
| Message 291 of 672 15 February 2012 at 4:46pm | IP Logged |
Euronews is a great tool.
Personally, I love practicing languages by reading news/books, because it knocks two daily tasks down with one
stone. Rather than spending one hour reading the news in English later, I can rather invest that time into reading
news and practicing a target language.
:-)
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mrwarper Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Spain forum_posts.asp?TID=Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5227 days ago 1493 posts - 2500 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Russian, Japanese
| Message 292 of 672 15 February 2012 at 5:31pm | IP Logged |
TTS quality is mostly OK for the major languages, Russian included, according to some little testing by my friends. However, they still have a long way to go, and I don't think they're really worth considering if you keep in mind that there's no shortage of books in text + audio format.
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drsarvo Diglot Senior Member Mexico Joined 4713 days ago 143 posts - 149 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Russian
| Message 293 of 672 15 February 2012 at 6:06pm | IP Logged |
Great! I will try euronews and russian simplified news. Thanks for your comments. I will give you my opinion shortly.
I am reviewing the poem Телефон, by Korney Chukovsky. Audio is in youtube, text in hobbitaniya.ru.
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drsarvo Diglot Senior Member Mexico Joined 4713 days ago 143 posts - 149 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Russian
| Message 294 of 672 15 February 2012 at 6:28pm | IP Logged |
Now I have study material for several lifetimes. It's great! Internet rules. Sputnik team rules.
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Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5057 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian*
| Message 295 of 672 15 February 2012 at 6:49pm | IP Logged |
When you listen to Russian and see the text, read by different people, do you have the
impression that everything is pronounced differently?
Do you notice that different people pronounce one and the same word differently or the
same sounds differently?
Do you encounter situations when you here an unexpected pronunciation except for the
stress and ё instead of e?
If yes, how often does it happen?
Edited by Марк on 15 February 2012 at 7:16pm
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drsarvo Diglot Senior Member Mexico Joined 4713 days ago 143 posts - 149 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Russian
| Message 296 of 672 15 February 2012 at 9:15pm | IP Logged |
As far as I can tell, I haven't noticed that.
Марк wrote:
When you listen to Russian and see the text, read by different people, do you have the
impression that everything is pronounced differently?
Do you notice that different people pronounce one and the same word differently or the
same sounds differently?
Do you encounter situations when you here an unexpected pronunciation except for the
stress and ё instead of e?
If yes, how often does it happen? |
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