Library Pronunciation |BEST|
Marilu Lukaszewski
(English pronunciations of library from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus and from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary, both sources Cambridge University Press)
This small program just tells 4 + 6 = 10. (Ignore the other blocks)
Q1: Does Thunkable have libraries or functions for which if I were to give a text string it would pronounce it for me.
Ex: 23 + 54 - 67 / 12 * 45 = 37.5
If I were to type this in to a text box, then the function(Library) should be able to take it from there and pronounce
Twenty Three plus Fifty Four minus Sixty Seven divide Twelve multiply Forty Five Equals Thirty Seven point Five.
Q2: I want to write my own function(library) in another language. So I would very much appreciate if I can get access to the actual program. Then I can mimic the logic and do it for another language.
Many thanks in advance.
Is there a library or web service that can tell you the pronunciation of a string? I'm thinking of character-based languages, where the pronunciation of the word is not apparent from how it's written.
Free API key will get pronunciations, definitions, and a whole lot more. Easy to use, and the API documentation site is interactive and lets you get your feet wet quickly. Lots of wrappers in various languages.
Students of all ages and levels often feel shy about speaking when they don't know how to pronounce a word. Help your learners gain confidence in their speaking abilities, and have fun doing it, with these illustrated lessons! This section has lessons on the main sounds in English that include minimal pair exercises to help students refine their pronunciation. Expand their fluency by teaching them about syllables and stress. Some digital lessons included video content, which can also be found in our Media Gallery.
Edit: As Ragi pointed out in the comments, Frank himself switched away from his original pronunciation during the time he was working at Google. Personally, I've heard people close to the project use the "goodle" pronunciation.
This thesis tests the hypothesis that a whole language approach to ESL (English As A Second Language) pronunciation with emphasis on suprasegementals through the use of linguistic mimicry is more effective than a focus on segmentals in improving native speakers perceptions of accent and comprehensibility of ESL students' pronunciation of English. The thesis is organized into seven chapters. Chapter 2 is a discussion of the factors that affect the degree of foreign accent in second language acquisition. Chapter 3 gives a background on current ESL pedagogy followed by a description of the linguistic mimicry approach used in this research in Chapter 4. Chapter 5 and 6 are discussion of Materials and Methods and Conclusions and Implications.
University of Iowa Speaking Center - Pronunciation Resources
This page lists some resources to help improve your confidence and abilities pronouncing words in English, including: phonetics rules, perfect pronunciations exercises, and rhythms and stress patterns.
Rachel's English
Rachel's English is an online American English pronunciation resource. All videos have closed captioning to help non-native speakers understand. Playlists include How to Say ... in American English , and American English in Real Life
Are you unsure of how to pronounce a word in English? YouGlish gives you the English pronunciation of words by using YouTube videos of native speakers using the words you search for! "With more than 40M tracks, YouGlish gives you fast, unbiased answers about how English is spoken by real people and in context."
The text offers a good overview of the pronunciation of French words and sounds. As another reviewer notes, it lacks a glossary or index which might help students locate material more quickly, but otherwise is fairly complete.read more
The text offers a good overview of the pronunciation of French words and sounds. As another reviewer notes, it lacks a glossary or index which might help students locate material more quickly, but otherwise is fairly complete.
The textbook is well organized. However I would not consider some of the information given in the appendices as supplementary (consistency of French vowels, diphtongs, consonant release the non-pronunciation of the letter h at the beginning of a word for example) and it would have been preferable had it been included in the introduction in the section Differences between French and English .
The text is largely context- and culture-free, so there is no real cultural relevance to speak of here. What few geographical references there are in the text are to French place names; the addition of a few non-metropolitan place names might be welcome. There are no images in the text; pictures representing a variety of French-language contexts might add a diverse and cultural element to the text, but its primary purpose is not to communicate culture but to advance French pronunciation ability.
Professor Walton does an exemplary job of explaining how students could greatly improve their pronunciation of French spoken in France by showing how to interpret spellings and pronunciations together. He includes descriptions of basic building...read more
Professor Walton does an exemplary job of explaining how students could greatly improve their pronunciation of French spoken in France by showing how to interpret spellings and pronunciations together. He includes descriptions of basic building blocks such as graphemes and forward slashes to indicate IPA symbols. Charts are used throughout the 96-page text to show how accents change the meaning or the pronunciation of a word, to highlight regular pronunciation (or lack of pronunciation) rules and their exceptions, as well as to explain the rules of vowel pronunciation.
I would have liked to see a section addressing liaison rules. There are two brief mentions. The first is in reference to pronouncing a final -s as a /z/ in front of a following vowel sound. The second is to succinctly state that the rule to liaison modifying the pronunciation of final consonants happens with articles, subject pronouns, adjectives that precede nouns, and with prepositions. This is true, of course. With so many examples and explanations given in the book for all other aspects of French sounds, I thought more would have been stated.
Yes, this text is written lucidly with adequate context for the technical terms that are necessary to comprehend when learning about some intricacies of pronunciation. Describing a grapheme, what the IPA is, about how we learn to speak and read English (as a first language) all helped to make the text accessible.
This textbook purposefully and carefully selected components of French pronunciation that are accessible and useful to an audience of intermediate learners. With the very specific goal of recognizing and eventually producing the most common...read more
This textbook purposefully and carefully selected components of French pronunciation that are accessible and useful to an audience of intermediate learners. With the very specific goal of recognizing and eventually producing the most common spelling/pronunciation patterns, it succeeds. The Table of Contents along with the Introduction make the program easy to navigate.
The preface of the book makes an excellent argument for its relevance describing the differences between French and English and how learning sound-spelling-word combinations is different as an adult second language learner. Students need guidance to understand (and potentially appreciate!) the regularity of the correspondence between French spelling and pronunciation.
This program is a very valuable resource for instructors wanting to offer active discrimination and pronunciation activities to intermediate students. It also provides an excellent tool for French students to feel more confident when looking at a word and are wanting to figure out how to pronounce it.
The explanations in the text are very detailed and clear, and several useful comparisons are made between English and French pronunciation. There is a website link provided in the introduction that includes computer-graded activities for...read more
The explanations in the text are very detailed and clear, and several useful comparisons are made between English and French pronunciation. There is a website link provided in the introduction that includes computer-graded activities for additional practice (mostly listening comprehension activities to distinguish differences between sounds), which is an added bonus. Very practical worksheets and activities designed for classroom use can be found at the end of each lesson. I would recommend that more comprehensive/detailed worksheets and activities be incorporated at the end of each section to promote a broader understanding of the concepts. It would also be helpful to have an answer key for the textbook activities. The glossary is comprehensive.
The textbook is lacking cultural contexts and could include more references to variation within pronunciation. For example, a section about the variation between written and spoken French could be very helpful as students often struggle with this concept.
I plan an incorporating this textbook in my college-level French conversation course. The book is divided into sections and lessons that would allow me to focus on student-specific pronunciation issues as they arise.
Sons et lettres provides a thorough overview of French pronunciation and clear presentation of the relationship between graphemes and phonemes. The introductory section synthesizes key differences between French and English and reviews the main...read more
Sons et lettres provides a set of classroom materials to train students to hear and produce the sounds of French and to recognize the regular spellings used to represent those sounds in print. The materials are inspired by a desire to help students feel more confident about their French pronunciation and more at home saying the many French words, familiar and unfamiliar, which they encounter in their studies, in French media and in their travels. In our experience, students are not given sufficient preparation to successfully decipher and pronounce French words. These materials are intended to fill that gap and to clear away the confusion that English speakers often feel when they see French words with seemingly mysterious combinations of letters.
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