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I looked up how to pronounce a word the other day and found a 30-second YouTube video. I expected it to be a looping track of someone saying the word over and o
by dorkwood 4y ago
I looked up how to pronounce a word the other day and found a 30-second YouTube video. I expected it to be a looping track of someone saying the word over and over, but what I got instead was 25 seconds of someone describing the word's origin (without saying the word itself), and explaining how many people want to know how to pronounce it. Only as the thumbnail overlay popped up at the end of the video did they actually say the word.
- r721 4y agoTry Forvo: "Forvo is the largest pronunciation reference online. Our goal is to compile native speaker pronunciations for all the words that exist in the world, including names." https://forvo.com/faq/ https://forvo.com/faq/
- Kye 4y agoThis is one thing Google still does well. https://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+pronounce+foxes https://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+pronounce+foxes
- kinduff 4y agoReminded me of this YouTube channel that started to pop out in my recommendations called PronunciationManual [1]. Trolling the algorithm seems fun, but I've had a few undesired encounters when trying to search for recipes for example. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/c/PronunciationManual https://www.youtube.com/c/PronunciationManual
- dorkwood 4y agoIt unfortunately doesn't seem to work with all words. https://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+pronounce+schnitzel https://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+pronounce+schnitzel
- Kye 4y agoThis seems to work: https://www.google.com/search?q=schnitzel+etymology https://www.google.com/search?q=schnitzel+etymology