As useful as this service can be right now it can be improved in so many ways. Here is a quick list of what we are working on. Feel free to leave your feature requests in the comments below.
- Export results to PDF;
- Display BrE and AmE transcriptions along each other;
- Improving dictionary base;
- Syncing Am and Br dictionaries;
- Option to show syllables in the output;
- Option to select character set;
- Custom character sets;
- Convert IPA to text;
- Option to loop speech audio;
- Improving linking rules for American transcriptions;
- Improving word stress and phrasal stress to better reflect patterns of connected speech;
- Sentence/phrase mark-up option.
Input form redesign;Option to select speech voice;
I found a mistake for the British transcription of the word terrain, should be tɛ´reɪn, not ˈtɛreɪn
Thanks for this website
Thanks!
A list of sources so I may use this in an article.
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This is a great service that I introduced to my language students in Oman. As you will see in the logs we’ve been using it for quite a while.
Right now it is a reference tool mostly- and it would be really great to add a functionality which would turn it into a testing tool too -e.g. a teacher can introduce a bank of words, their students (after log in) get a random list of words with clickable transcription.
If api could me made available I would gladly contribute to working on this worthwhile project myself.
Hi Jarek,
Maybe you and your students get interested in audiodrill.com tool to practice listening and pronunciation? Take a look, e.g., at this word list:
https://audiodrill.com/?wlist=aplomb,bomber,climb,comb,crumb,debt,doubt,dumb,jamb,lamb,limb,numb,plumber,subtle,succumb,thumb,tomb,womb
If you would like to develop audiodrill project, you can leave your comment and contact details there.
Best regards,
Dzmitry
Freaking luv it! I’d like to help working on this tool. So feel free to contact me.
same as me- see the comment above
I would love them to share an API on github
A quite useful tool. Save me tons of time when I prepared some materials for my students. Glad I tried to find a tool like this.
Display BrE and AmE transcriptions along each other will be nice. That’s actually what I originally wanted.
Keep up the good work!