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Español: Pronunciación en Inglés con vídeo · Italiano: Pronuncia in inglese con video
Português: Pronúncia em Inglês com vídeo · Français: Prononciation en anglais avec
la vidéo
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to review the pronunciation as many times as you need.
Search for a word and you'll not only get audio of how to pronounce it, but also tagged videos of
real people
in real situations naturally speaking and using the word in context.
Try it on the left for the word "salmon" which is often mispronounced. Look up your own words above.
Virtual Face-to-Face Pronunciations: With videos like the above, you get to not only hear the word but
actually see facial gestures that different people use to produce pronunciations. It's virtually like having someone in
front of you pronouncing the word when you watch in full-screen and/or zoomed. Tens of thousands of words have such videos.
We hope to get one or more for every word! Read
more.
Non-isolated Pronunciations: In real life, words are typically not pronounced in isolation. Research suggests
that exposure to surrounding language around a pronunciation, as videos provide, can significantly benefit a learner. Read more.
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Why a pronunciation dictionary?
If this is your first time on this site, you might want to take a look at the EmbedPlus home page and play
with our enhanced player for YouTube videos. Since launching the player, we've not only been thinking of new features but
also ways of leveraging it to enhance the things that people do on the web. Reference sites are one such class of services/applications
that are quite popular and could generally benefit from added multimedia for conveying certain concepts. This idea has been
highly explored with audio on the web, and its application with video only improves learning and teaching with the added
visual dimension. Most dictionaries, for example, provide audio pronunciations of words to help learners. It's rare, however,
to find videos that are tagged and time-stamped for learning pronunciations, allowing learners to jump to times when a given
word is used by a speaker. We see tagged videos not only helping in learning how to pronounce a word, but they could also
be effective in illustrating word usage and certain cultural concepts.
Along these lines, we started our exploration by building this evolving pronunciation dictionary with usage examples. In
the end, we hope to have a well-curated set of tagged videos to release that you can integrate in your own sites with our
API. Contact us for API access here.
Start now with English words.
With English being our team's first language and the availability of Princeton University's WordNet, we are starting with
support for that language. Furthermore, we focus on American English pronunciations. Other varieties of English will come
as things evolve.
Start playing with our tool by searching above or clicking on one of the random words below. After checking it out for a
while, we hope you can send us feedback and link to us to share this language resource.
- EmbedPlus Team
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