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jellyfish
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 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
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 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
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 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
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 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
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 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
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 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
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 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
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 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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