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| slucido Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Spain https://goo.gl/126Yv Joined 6680 days ago 1296 posts - 1781 votes  4 sounds Speaks: Spanish*, Catalan* Studies: English | Message 9 of 22 09 September 2006 at 4:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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...because I don´t have much time to listen radios or TVs ( or I don´t like), but I read a lot. Maybe a good text to speech program can help me.
Besides I think that reading and listening at the same time can be very powerful. Synergy? Edited by slucido on 09 September 2006 at 4:50pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Katie Diglot Senior Member Australia Joined 6723 days ago 495 posts - 599 votes Speaks: English*, Hungarian Studies: French, German | Message 10 of 22 09 September 2006 at 4:58pm | IP Logged | ||
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My friend has a similar program for Hungarian and English, although I don't know what it's called. He said you point the arrow at a word and it will bring up the translation (either way). He was going to look for it for me.
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| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7020 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 11 of 22 09 September 2006 at 5:07pm | IP Logged | ||
Definitely. You could look for a radio transmission with a transcript or read a book while listening to the audiobook. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| slucido Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Spain https://goo.gl/126Yv Joined 6680 days ago 1296 posts - 1781 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Spanish*, Catalan* Studies: English | Message 12 of 22 09 September 2006 at 5:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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Katie, I have an english-Spanish dictionary with this features and with two native voices (U.S. and British) for every word. The text to speech is another thing. The software literally read all the text, but without any translation.
Patuco, you are right. I think reading a book with its audiobook is great. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Katie Diglot Senior Member Australia Joined 6723 days ago 495 posts - 599 votes Speaks: English*, Hungarian Studies: French, German | Message 13 of 22 10 September 2006 at 5:14am | IP Logged | ||
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Oh ok. As I mentioned, I'm not very familiar with the program. Do you think it's worthwhile to have then?
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| slucido Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Spain https://goo.gl/126Yv Joined 6680 days ago 1296 posts - 1781 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Spanish*, Catalan* Studies: English | Message 14 of 22 10 September 2006 at 11:23am | IP Logged | ||
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Yes, Katie, I think is very good idea to have an online dictionary with native voices.I´m using one CD Spanish-english dictionary (Cambrige Klett). I don´t know if english-hungarian exists with the hungarian voices. If it exists, I think it can be very useful for you.
And text to speech software, I´m looking for good quality english voices... and it´s awesome. Almost like natural speech. There are voices for english, Spanish, German, french, but I don´t know for hungarian. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| geirtbr Groupie Norway Joined 6662 days ago 83 posts - 90 votes Speaks: Norwegian* Studies: Russian | Message 15 of 22 14 September 2006 at 3:38pm | IP Logged | ||
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Now I just posted a similar thread, but since you are already discussing it ill give my opinions:
* Text to speech has really bad sentence intonation, with that i mean the way the tone of voice change throughout the sentence. *it has right pronunciation about 99% of the words, which is good. but the final 1% which it misses, is annoying. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| slucido Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Spain https://goo.gl/126Yv Joined 6680 days ago 1296 posts - 1781 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Spanish*, Catalan* Studies: English | Message 16 of 22 15 September 2006 at 11:12am | IP Logged | ||
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Thank you. Maybe it´s better to buy an interesting book with the audio, like said Patuco. Listening and reading at the same time wil be better for language learning than reading with the "text to speech" voice. After can be useful listening the audio alone.
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