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June 16, 2012, 2:48 a.m.

iaing
iaing AU
139 posts
Does anyone else do this ?

I have recently been reading 三重门 by 韩寒 (yes, laugh away), and find myself cutting and pasting pages into google translate and reading and then listening to it. I find this helps a lot.

Anyone else have experience here? Are there other similar methods?

June 16, 2012, 11:55 a.m.

keke_eo
keke_eo FI
384 posts
I converted a few texts to mp3 using the mac's text to speech function, just to test it out. I certainly prefer native speakers.

June 16, 2012, 2:10 p.m.

Al3
Al3 MX
239 posts
It's a very nice idea. For English I use Talk it! and for other languages the Easy Words demos but I hadn't thought about google translate for that purpose. Thanks for the tip.

June 16, 2012, 10:58 p.m.

iaing
iaing AU
139 posts
I think, for Chinese at least, this seems to work ok for a couple of reasons:

1- relatively few syllables in Chinese (around 1300) so google seems to have created a complete voiced vocab set that is pretty standard pronunciation (but not perfect)
2- it now seems to have pretty good sentence intonation built into it (ie the voice slows down and pauses around commas, full stops etc).
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