Based on our record, Forvo seems to be a lot more popular than ELSA Speak. While we know about 213 links to Forvo, we've tracked only 10 mentions of ELSA Speak. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
Also, Elsa Speak may be helpful for your mom. Source: 5 months ago
There is an app called ELSA Speak where you can work with pronunciation and partly Intonation. I used it a little, and it seems to work. Source: 12 months ago
As many have pointed here Mandarin, Thai, Cantonese and Vietnam are tonal languages and the meaning of words are depending on how you speak the syllables inside the words. Mandarin has four, Thai has five, Cantonese has six and Vitnamese has six tones. Overall about 20% or 1.5 billion of the world's population converse daily in tonal languages. It will be very helpful if someone come up with automatic tonal... - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago
Https://elsaspeak.com/en/ is an app with focus on pronunciation. Not sure though if it's possible to set the focus on American English, but maybe still worth a try. Source: about 1 year ago
There are many apps now that can check, validate and rate your language speaking and pronunciations for example ELSA Speak [1]. They provide virtual personal tutor experiences for speaking English correctly. Never tried it myself and not affiliated with the app but ELSA has some good reviews on some videos that I've seen. I think it can be very good practice assistant for any country that learn English by default... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
Oh and for anyone who doesn't know yet - there is this website https://forvo.com/ which has a lot of audio recordings from native speakers. You can search for a single word or a full phrase. It really helped me with Korean and German when I had doubts:). Source: 5 months ago
Another useful site for hearing pronunciations is Forvo: https://forvo.com/ Those are user contributed pronunciations, so there was an effort to say the word clearly. Although Youglish might be more authentic in a sense, I prefer hearing a word enunciated precisely if I want to learn the pronunciation. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago
Forvo to hear isolated recordings of words, YouGlish to hear them in context. Source: 10 months ago
Another possible resource is a site called forvo in which people pronounce words and sentences in their own languages. Very useful tool to learn pronunciations of new words but please bear in mind that sometimes they can be unrealistic if they are exaggerated and/or out of context. Source: 10 months ago
For individual words and phrases, go to http://forvo.com where you can hear native speakers in dozens of languages and even submit new words, names, or phrases. Source: 10 months ago
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