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Download the Audio Pronunciation of Words from Google Mar 26th 2012, 20:16 Here's a little tip that some educators and students may find useful. You can directly download the audio pronunciation files of English dictionary words from Google and practice pronunciation on the go. A little background. When you use a search query like "define:word," Google will offer the dictionary definition of that word and, in most cases, it will also provide an audio hint to help you learn how to pronounce that word. Download Audio Pronunciations from Google These audio pronunciation files are in MP3 format and you can directly access them without even using Google Search. Just use the following URL and replace WORD with any of the English words that you are still learning to pronounce. https://ssl.gstatic.com/dictionary/static/sounds/de/0/WORD.mp3 To give you an example, here are some sample audio pronunciation files that you can right-click and directly download to your computer. https://ssl.gstatic.com/dictionary/static/sounds/de/0/exaggerate.mp3 https://ssl.gstatic.com/dictionary/static/sounds/de/0/croissant.mp3 And this trick may even work with difficult words for which Google doesn't offer an audio pronunciation hint – for instance, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.mp3. This story, Download the Audio Pronunciation of Words from Google, was originally published at Digital Inspiration on 26/03/2012 under English, Mp3, Internet. Related posts: Live Dictionary for Instant Definitions of English Words Adopt Lost Words to Bring Them Back From Extinction Google Speech Recognition Technology Is Now Called Google Audio Indexing Online Google Dictionary Learn to Pronounce Difficult Words with YouTube Videos Media files: audio_pronunciation1-50x50.png (image/png)

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