A handy language learning tool

[ioturep]

If you are teaching or learning language, you can improve listening and pronunciation using speech synthesis software. When people have access to Windows Vista or XP, they can install the text-to-speech freeware panopreter. Then Microsoft Anna, the standard American voice on Windows Vista, will speak and read files in English. It's a wonderful English learning method, in addition, panopreter converts speech into wave and mp3 files, you can import generated audio files to portable devices, and listen to them while walking, jogging or commuting to work.

It supports other languages too, such as Spanish, French, German etc. If you are running panopreter on Windows XP, you'd better install a third party voice engine, for the default Microsoft voice on Windows XP is not as good as that on Windows Vista.

[Yuna7780]

Really? That's a very cool and creative idea! Thanks for sharing! I'll probably do something like that for German now.

[ioturep]

If you use panopreter to read text in German, I recommend you install a German voice engine provided by Acapela.

If you install a Japanese text-to-speech voice engine, the computer will read Japanese text too.

Here is a page showing some famous voice engine providers for a lot languages.
http://www.panopreter.com/products/p...voices_eng.php