Sunday, 6 June 2010

Two Websites To Learn How To Pronounce A Name

How to pronounceThere are sometimes you feel the need to say a name of a product or a place. However, these names are not usually in dictionary. The only way is to search on the web for these names. Here are two websites may help you.

inogolo

inogolo

All the pronunciations of inogolo were contributed from inogolo community. One of the interests of inogolo is that you can learn how to pronounce famous company or product names like Nokia, Ferrari, Hugo Boss etc. While other sites only tell you the pronunciations of people name or place name.


To find the pronunciation of a word, just type the word into the search box and then press enter. If the word is already in the database, inogolo will display a short description about it and the pronunciation audio button below. You just click on that button to hear the pronunciation. You should probably add inogolo to the ignore list of your download manager to avoid it downloads automatically the audio file because it is really annoy when you search many words there.

inogolo - the result page

There are still many words haven't been added yet (e.g. Samsung, Lexus...), you can bookmark the result page and come back later to see. Besides, you can add inogolo to the list of search engine providers in Firefox and IE, so you can search for the pronunciation right in the search box of your browser.

inogolo plugin

Forvo



Forvo

You probably must be surprised because of the huge number of words and languages in Forvo database: over 180,000 words and 98,000 pronunciations in more than 200 different languages. In fact, all the words have been being contributed from all people around the world and Forvo make the contribution so easy to everyone.

To search the pronunciation of a word, just type it into the search box and press enter. The results appear below and are classified into language tabs.

forvo search result

You can easily contribute to Forvo by your own pronunciation for pending words, just sign up, click on Pronounce link above the search box, then select your language in the combo box below and click Select language button. Next, click on the record image and pronounce the word. Forvo will record it and add to the database.

Forvo record pending word

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