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Re: gsay: Fetch pronunciation of English vocabulary from Google

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Post by Tagbert » Mon, Oct 13, 2025, 3:08 PM UTC

5- wrote: post #10

what is the source of google's pronunciations? i've always held the cambridge learner dictionary's ones in high esteem. e.g. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/pronunci...

so many of the pronunciations I find on the web are just raw text-to-speech outputs that assume a generic pronunciation and fail for many words, in particular for names. I hope that the Google ones are actually human generated and verified, but am not confident of that.

Re: gsay: Fetch pronunciation of English vocabulary from Google

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Post by therealpygon » Mon, Oct 13, 2025, 3:10 PM UTC

myfonj wrote: post #6

IAmBroom wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dubiously, I clicked. Yeah, I could listen to her read the dictionary as I waft off to sleep...

Ha ha, really glad to hear that. (The fact is, I am kinda freak/junkie about human voices, and that particular one stands really high on my list of irresistible tingles-inducing specimens. So happy to hear I am not alone.)

Would be nice if there were enough words in a sentence with that voice to create an ai voice clone.

Re: gsay: Fetch pronunciation of English vocabulary from Google

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Post by dilap » Mon, Oct 13, 2025, 4:04 PM UTC

There is a website forvo.com which has a bunch of community-generated pronunciations of words in a ton of languages. I used to use it a lot when I was playing around w/ learning languages.

There's also a paid API. I made a very basic command-line client which might still work: https://github.com/erinok/forvosay