Pronunciation for user created flashcards
Hola,
One thing I like about the user created flashcards is that it provide the pronunciation for each entry, whether it is a word or a short phrase. The pronunciation sounds like from real people. Is that so? Or it is computer generated text-to-voice speech? If it is the latter, can I trust its pronunciation?
Gracias,
1 Answer
It is text-to-voice speech. Usually if it pronounces the entire word, then you can trust the pronunciation, but being a machine it often stutters, omits syllables or truncates words. And being that Spanish is a more phonetic language than English, the Spanish speaker does a better job. The only problem is that Spanish has a lot of regional variation in pronunciation so you cannot trust that his pronunciation will match what you hear elsewhere. To a lesser extent the same is true in English. If you are used to a Texas drawl or a New England accent you may not think that the pronunciation is correct.
If you wish to hear better pronunciations, try the dictionary and see if there is a video of a human pronouncing the word. You are still only going to hear one accent, but it is usually correct for some place in the world.
