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- "Tá páirc eatarthu."
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Where would i get the pronunciation of a word like eatarthu for the provences? Teanglann doesnt.
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Try www.abair.ie - it's synthesised speech, not a recording, but it's quite good and much more comprehensive than teanglann as it will try to synthesise almost anything. Out of interest, I tried it with eatarthu and it sounded ok on all but the Dingle one: I couldn't tell whether that was an odd sounding pronunciation that accurately reflects reality, or just a bit mangled.
The Forvo website often has pronounciations by natives. Otherwise it's helpful getting a rough grip on the International Phonetic Alphabet - then you can use Wiktionary.
How do you know that they're "natives"? And what exactly is a "native" anyway?
One of the problems with Forvo is that, if you need to rely on it for guidance, then you aren't experienced enough to evaluate the accuracy of any individual volunteer on forvo.
Like Google Translate, when it works, it works, when it doesn't work you have no idea that there's a problem.
Huh, fair point. I naively believed Forvo's advertisement that the recordings are by native speakers, but I doubt that it has any way of checking.
Still, for the rare cases where on cannot find any other pronunciation, Forvo is better than nothing.
If the example that you find on forvo is wrong, then it's worse than nothing.
