On-line articles with speech in them (need help)

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Posted by Lira on May-05-2005 03:03:

On-line articles with speech in them (need help)

I'm studying English with my girlfriend and it would be really helpful if someone could tell me about websites where I could find articles (news will do) with audio files so we could listen to someone reading them. So far I'm using Voice of America (she wants to learn American English).

Could you guys help me out?

Posted by Lira on May-05-2005 04:39:

Re: Re: On-line articles with speech in them (need help)

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Originally posted by Nou
Have you tried NPR?

http://www.npr.org/

They post their transcripts (err this costs money i think) and shows, its a really good resource.

hmm... it would be too expensive (to have an idea of what our economy is like, multiply everything by 3 and that's roughly the same amount of money we would pay here). A single transcript would cost 12 dollars then

Thanks for the suggestion though

Posted by Lira on May-05-2005 14:10:

Anyone else?

Posted by Fundamental on May-05-2005 14:25:

Re: On-line articles with speech in them (need help)

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Originally posted by Lira
Could you guys help me out?

You could always get us lot to read out some news articles for you and send the audio files.

Free, easy, and you'll get a bunch of different accents to listen to.

Posted by Lira on May-05-2005 15:43:

Re: Re: On-line articles with speech in them (need help)

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Originally posted by Fundamental
You could always get us lot to read out some news articles for you and send the audio files.

Free, easy, and you'll get a bunch of different accents to listen to.

Hehe

Actually, Joe, I am thinking of doing something similar. I'd ask native speakers to read something and I would develop a website where you could learn more about the different accents of the English language (I'd choose a free webhost so there would be free). So far, I just need to figure out how to:

1) Make people sound more natural: reading usually requires attention and you seldom speak the same way you talk to your friends, for example. People become aware of their accents, and might "correct" what is not wrong. Having some sort of anonymous self-introduction is an idea.

2) Elaborate a text with every phoneme of the English language and minimal pairs. That means I'd need to choose words with the broadest possible range of sounds in most dialects (so I wouldn't stick only to those of BBC English).

3) Listen to all the files, divide them by regions and write the phonetic transcription (which would be useful for teachers).

4) Find a place to host... but I've got some places in mind.

In a near future, hopefully, I will be working on that

Posted by butterfly on May-05-2005 16:28:

why dont you watch american dvds? i watch buffy the vampire slayer dubbed in french to learn french. it works well.

Posted by goonerjack on May-05-2005 20:24:

What about English radio stations as well?

If you're interested I could give you the websites of the better ones...