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| Logie100 Diglot Newbie New Zealand Joined 5252 days ago 35 posts - 46 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German | Message 1 of 10 13 June 2011 at 12:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hey guys, I have found a website that is supposed to be used for people wanting a talking animated character for their website, but thanks to the addtion of many different languages and voices, it can be used to give pronounciations of foreign words .
Its like microsoft sam but way better quality Here is the link: http://www.sitepal.com/ttswidgetdemo/ Has anyone used it? im keen to hear your feedback. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 5946 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes  Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 2 of 10 13 June 2011 at 1:46pm | IP Logged | ||
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The speech synthesis at www.ivona.com is a bit more natural sounding to my ear, but they don't have as many languages.
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| Emme Triglot Senior Member Italy Joined 5282 days ago 980 posts - 1594 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, German Studies: Russian, Swedish, French | Message 3 of 10 06 August 2011 at 11:16pm | IP Logged | ||
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Sorry to bring up this old thread again, but only today have I had the time to check out the two websites. I totally agree with Cainntear about the ivona text-to-speech sounding more natural, but what really disappointed me in the SitePal programme is that you can’t use the word ‘ho’ in your text even if you set your language to Italian (I wanted to evaluate the service in a language I’m sure I can judge). I realize that they want to prevent the misuse of their software, given what ‘ho’ sounds like in English, but it really doesn’t make much sense to stop its use in other languages. In Italian ‘ho’ is the very common verb ‘I have’ and it’s necessary as an auxiliary verb in many/most sentences dealing with actions in the past (1st person singular). If they censure ‘ho’ in Italian, I wonder how many other ‘innocent’ words are blocked in other languages. They need to reconsider how they filter the words they don’t want to be used, so that they are blocked only in language-specific settings and not across the board. As it is now this software risks being unusable. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| misslanguages Diglot Senior Member France fluent-language.blog Joined 4781 days ago 190 posts - 217 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: German | Message 4 of 10 24 August 2011 at 7:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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IVONA disappointed me a little. The TTS software can't pronounce "penchant" in English.
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| Hampie Diglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 6594 days ago 625 posts - 1009 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: Latin, German, Mandarin | Message 5 of 10 24 August 2011 at 8:15pm | IP Logged | ||
voice to be able to pronounce french? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| misslanguages Diglot Senior Member France fluent-language.blog Joined 4781 days ago 190 posts - 217 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: German | Message 6 of 10 24 August 2011 at 9:42pm | IP Logged | ||
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It's not a French word.
It's an English word. I'm currently studying SAT vocabulary and I needed to have it pronounced. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| starrye Senior Member United States Joined 5029 days ago 172 posts - 280 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese | Message 7 of 10 24 August 2011 at 10:47pm | IP Logged | ||
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If you really need to have an English word pronounced, you could always try Forvo.com? In fact "penchant" may already be there since it isn't that uncommon... I use that site all the time for Japanese words. There are a few regulars there who seem to always record my word within 24 hours, tops. Which is pretty good considering the time difference when I usually post.
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| jazzboy.bebop Senior Member Norway norwegianthroughnove Joined 5353 days ago 439 posts - 800 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Norwegian | Message 8 of 10 25 August 2011 at 12:43am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm not sure if there is an agreed pronunciation for penchant. According to the Oxford English dictionary, penchant came into English from French back in the 17th century. Many people pronounce it in a French way, others pronounce it like pen-chin-t, or some other variant.
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