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Google translate has added pronunciation for Filipino

Postby leosmith » Sat Jan 27, 2018 4:35 am

After struggling to get my tutors to correctly denote stress on words, and trying unsuccessfully to find stress on words I encounter but haven't heard pronounced, I was really happy to see that Google finally added audio to Filipino.
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Re: Google translate has added pronunciation for Filipino

Postby sfuqua » Sat Jan 27, 2018 6:05 am

I hope I posted before, but they even have a tts voice on android.

You can actually listen to a book in "Filipino!"
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Re: Google translate has added pronunciation for Filipino

Postby leosmith » Fri May 18, 2018 4:52 pm

leosmith wrote:After struggling to get my tutors to correctly denote stress on words, and trying unsuccessfully to find stress on words I encounter but haven't heard pronounced, I was really happy to see that Google finally added audio to Filipino.

I better update this - Google Translate turns out not to be reliable at all regarding stress, unfortunately. But this little dictionary is great for the limited vocabulary in contains.
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Re: Google translate has added pronunciation for Filipino

Postby sfuqua » Fri May 18, 2018 7:47 pm

I've used android's tts voice for reading Tagalog, and it works pretty well. It has some terrible bloopers in it. They upgraded it recently, but I haven't tested it since then.
Stress in Tagalog is annoying since it isn't marked in the regular orthography.
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