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  • January 15, 2015 at 12:09 am #47263

    Brian
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    Whenever I am browsing a site I find myself copy-pasting Japanese into Google Translate and let it sound out the pronunciation to verify if I’m pronouncing the words correctly. It would be nice if I can just install an extension and hover over the Japanese and press a key or something to let the browser pronounce it automagically.

    I couldn’t find any extension that does this. Do you guys have any tip on how to quickly verify whether my pronunciation is correct while browsing?

    January 15, 2015 at 11:55 am #47264

    Joel
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    Does Rikai-chan do audio? Or Rikai-kun… can never remember which one is the Chrome version. Rikai-something, anyway.

    January 15, 2015 at 11:50 pm #47272

    Brian
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    Yeah I am using Rikaikun and it only does translation but doesn’t spit out sound :/

    January 16, 2015 at 6:48 pm #47292

    Justin
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    I’ve wondered if it would be possible to integrate Google’s hilarious sounding Japanese text-to-speech function. I have a gmail extension that has done so, I imagine it wouldn’t be that difficult for the developers of Rikaikun to do the same. Send them an email :P

    I haz a blog http://maninjapanchannel.wordpress.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLQzB-1u-dg
    January 17, 2015 at 11:19 am #47295

    Umbrea
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    Yes there is!
    I did some digging and it turns out forvo.com has an add on for that purpose. Forvo.com itself offers around 60.000 Japanese words with their pronunciation so if it’s not too exotic you’ll probably find it there. (if not you still have to check google translate I guess) But it came in handy multiple times anyway. Here’s the link:

    https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/forvo?hl=de

    Edit: Just noticed that the add on was created less than two weeks ago. That’s probably the reason I never knew it existed until now ;)

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    January 20, 2015 at 12:21 am #47310

    Brian
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    Thanks for the suggestions. I also found a pretty good alternative and that’s using OS X’s native text-to-speech like so:

    https://i.imgur.com/jmpDayB.png

    The best thing is it works with any program in the OS ;)

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    January 20, 2015 at 5:57 am #47317

    Umbrea
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    Oh, I never thought of using Chrome Speak. Thanks for the tip :O

    January 20, 2015 at 6:13 am #47318

    Brian
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    Oh nice Chrome Speak is actually the extension that I was looking for in the first place. It also uses Google Translate’s speech engine to pronounce so it’s perfect.

    But I’ve found OS X’s speech engine to produce much more accurate pronunciation so I’m gonna stick to that.

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