- Forvo (https://forvo.com): it’s a ‘living’ pronunciation dictionary: native speakers from all over the world record themselves pronouncing words, names, place names… It can be useful to show real pronunciations from real speakers, but also to show different geographical varieties.
- YouGlish (http://youglish.com/): Search engine of keywords inside YouTube videos. It will start playing the videos at the exact point where the keyword is being uttered. The video is played with subtitles. It can also be used to look for videos about a specific topic (by looking for a certain keyword). A similar search engine, but relying on a database made up of TV shows can be found here: http://playphrase.me/#/search
- More ideas and information about these sites can be found here: https://natalialzam.wordpress.com/2014/02/05/para-profesores-en-apuros/.
- Online dictionaries: The Cambridge dictionary (https://dictionary.cambridge.org) offers both British and American pronunciations in their transcriptions and sound files; the Macmillan dictionary (https://www.macmillandictionary.com/us) can be especially useful for copying and pasting IPA symbols.
- Online Phonetizer (https://www.phonetizer.com/ui): Copy and paste text onto the box, and the website will automatically transcribe it. The text can also be read aloud; at the time of writing, however, the British voice sounds more ‘natural’ than its American counterpart. More information on this blog post: https://natalialzam.wordpress.com/2019/02/20/phonetizer-automatic-phonemic-transcriptions/.
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