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Articles » Text-to-speech for study » Study accurate pronunciation with Speaking Notepad Speaking Notepad is a powerful and easy tool to learn foreign
languages, study pronunciation, stress and intonation of words and
sentences. Speaking Notepad combines text to speech and computer-assisted
language learning technology to make learning process fast, easy and
entertaining.
When you try to memorize a new word or a phrase, you should pay special attention
not only to its meaning, spelling and peculiarity of usage, but also to its
pronunciation. You may use a special pronunciation
dictionary to find out a transcription of the word you are learning.
The transcription represents a number of special pronunciation
symbols, so you should know pronunciation key or
follow pronunciation guide containing these pronunciation symbols to
be able to pronounce the word correctly.
As you can see this method of teaching pronunciation of words is rather
onerous and requires much time, besides you can never know whether you are right
in reproducing pronunciation symbols written in your pronunciation dictionary.
Many people think that the only way to teach pronunciation and word stress is
to use pronunciation dictionary and to learn pronunciation symbols. However,
you can use modern text to speech TTS technologies and read
aloud programs to make teaching pronunciation much easier.
How to teach pronunciation using text to speech TTS software?
It's evident that teaching word stress and pronunciation with read
aloud programs is more efficient and easier. Have a trial of our new text
to speech converter - Speaking Notepad to make sure of
it. You can simply type the necessary word in Speaking Notepad
and listen to the correct accurate pronunciation of this word in a clear and
natural voice. All you need is to type the word and listen to its pronunciation!
Just have a look at the advantages of using this read aloud program
while teaching pronunciation:
You needn't keep in mind intricate pronunciation keys for pronunciation symbols;
You needn't follow tangled articulatory instructions;
Just type the necessary word and listen to its pronunciation without searching it in the dictionary;
You can listen to the word as many times as you need and remember it well;
You can repeat the word after the speaker paying special attention to word stress and difficult sounds;
You can choose the voice which you understand and percieve most easily.
With Speaking Notepad, the best text to speech program,
you can forget about burdensome searching of word pronunciation in fat dictionaries
and learning pronunciation symbols. Using Speaking Notepad
you'll also be able to convert text documents to Mp3 and Wav audio files
to listen to them on iPods or Mp3 players at your convenience. Replace your
old pronunciation dictionary by this extremely handy assistant in obtaining
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If you are really interested in teaching pronunciation, another text to
speech program -1st Read It Aloud - will certainly attract
your attention. This easy-to-use text to speech converter can read
aloud any text selected by you in any application without copying the
text into the clipboard. Just select the necessary text, press the defined hot
key and listen how 1st Read It Aloud reads the text aloud in
natural sounding voice! If you use this powerful text to speech program,
your pronunciation teaching will surely become as easy as a piece of cake!
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and make certain of it yourself!
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