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When words sound different in isolation vs. in a sentence, look up the pronunciation first in a dictionary, then use https://youglish.com

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Le programme permet la lecture des fichiers texte à haute voix. En vue de reproduire la voix humaine il est possible d'utiliser tous les synthétiseurs de la parole installés sur un ordinateur. La reproduction de la voix humaine est contrôlable à l'aide des boutons standards semblables à ceux de tout programme multimédia (" reproduire ", " pause ", " arrêter "). Le programme est capable de reproduire le contenu du presse-papiers, afficher le texte contenant dans les textes avec les extensions AZW, AZW3, CHM, DjVu, DOC, DOCX, EML, EPUB, FB2, FB3, HTML, LIT, MD, MOBI, ODP, ODS, ODT, PDB, PDF, PPT, PPTX, PRC, RTF, TCR, WPD, XLS et XLSX, changer les configurations de la police et de la couleur, gérer le processus de la lecture depuis le tray de programme ou à l'aide des combinaisons globales des touches, prononcer le texte composé depuis le clavier, vérifier l'orthographe, fractionner le ficher texte en quelques fichiers plus petits, chercher les homographes. Balabolka permet d'effacer tous les signes de séparation à la fin des lignes pour éviter les accrocs éventuels lors de la lecture des mots.

Le texte peut être sauvegardé en tant que fichier son (compatible avec les formats WAV, MP3, MP4, OGG et WMA). Le programme utilise les différentes versions du paquet des fonctions de parole Microsoft Speech API ( SAPI). Il permet de changer la vitesse et le timbre de la parole.

L'utilisateur peut se servir de la liste spéciale des remplacements pour améliorer la qualité de la reproduction de la parole. Cela s'avère utile lors du changement de la prononciation des mots ou des syllabes isolées, pour ce faire une expression dans le texte se remplace par l'expression que l'on lit. Pour enregistrer ces règles de remplacement on utilise la syntaxe des expressions rationnelles ; les listes de remplacements sont stockées dans les fichiers avec l'extension *.rex.

Le logiciel Balabolka peut enregistrer un texte synchronisé sous des fichiers de type LRC ou des tags ID3 à l'intérieur des fichiers audio de type MP3. Lors d'une lecture de ces fichiers audio avec un médiaplayeur sur un ordinateur ou un playeur digital moderne le texte se présente synchroniquement (ainsi que les textes des chansons de fichiers musicaux).

Télécharger le fichier

Taille de fichier : Mo

Version : Changelog

Licence : Freeware

Système d'exploitation :

La version portable de Version portable : Télécharger ( Mo)
Balabolka ne requiert pas d'installation préalable.
Téléchargez l'archive du programme et décompressez-le sur une clé USB.

Application console : Télécharger ( Ko)
L'application console diffère de l'application de bureau en ce qu'elle ne contient pas d'interface utilisateur graphique et fonctionne uniquement en ligne de commande ou paramétrée par un fichier de configuration.

Le programme permet d'extraire le texte de différents types de fichiers. Utilitaire d'extraction de texte du fichier : Télécharger ( Mo)

L'utilitaire n'a pas d'interface graphique et fonctionne uniquement en mode texte en la ligne de commande.

* Balabolka: c'est le mot russe qui signifie en français " moulin à paroles ".

Le programme permet de changer l'interface grâce aux " skins " (sujets).

Sujets graphiques (6.7 Mo, 107 " skins ")

Extraire le fichier dans le catalogue où le programme est installé.

Toutes les voix pour SAPI 4 sont devenues obsolètes ; elles ne sont plus recommandées pour l'installation. Utilisez de nouvelles versions de synthétiseurs vocaux.

Les synthétiseurs vocaux commerciaux recommandés :

Microsoft Speech Platform

Microsoft Speech Platform (version 11.0) est un ensemble d'outils permettant aux développeurs de concevoir et de déployer des applications de la reconnaissance automatique de la parole pour la transcrire sous la forme d'un texte.

Pour opérer le synthétiseur de la parole, il faut télécharger et installer les éléments suivants :

1. Microsoft Speech Platform - Runtime, côté serveur de la plateforme vocale, il offre API
pour les applications (le fichier " x86_SpeechPlatformRuntime\SpeechPlatformRuntime.msi ")

2. Runtime Languages est un ensemble de langues pour le côté serveur.
Actuellement des voix pour 26 langues sont disponibles, les voix françaises Hortense et Harmonie
incluses (les fichiers dont les noms commencent par " MSSpeech_TTS_ ").

Les balises (instructions de commande) utilisées pour les voix SAPI 5 peuvent être également utilisées pour les voix Microsoft Speech Platform. Notez bien que les voix SAPI 5 et les voix Microsoft Speech Platform ne sont pas compatibles entre elles, il n'est pas possible de changer entre elles à l'aide des balises Voice ou Lang.

Vérification d'orthographe

Hunspell ( hunspell.github.io) est un correcteur orthographique basé sur Myspell, il est rétro compatible avec les dictionnaires Myspell. Hunspell est utilisé par OpenOffice.org, LibreOffice et Mozilla Firefox.

Le programme utilise les dictionnaires du produit de programme Microsoft Office 97/2000. Si le Microsoft Office n'est pas installé sur votre ordinateur vous pouvez télécharger le module de la vérification de l'orthographe depuis le site du programme.

L'application permet d'utiliser la vérification orthographique intégrée au système d'exploitation. L'API Spell Checking est disponible en commençant par Windows 8.

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Use the magic of speech recognition to write emails and documents in Google Chrome.

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Launch Dictation Voice Commands

Voice Dictation - Type with your Voice

Dictation can recognize and transcribe popular languages including English, Español, Français, Italiano, Português, हिन्दी, தமிழ், اُردُو, বাংলা, ગુજરાતી, ಕನ್ನಡ, and more. See full list of supported languages.

You can add new paragraphs, punctuation marks, smileys and other special characters using simple voice commands. For instance, say "New line" to move the cursor to the next list or say "Smiling Face" to insert :-) smiley. See list of supported voice commands.

Dictation uses Google Speech Recognition to transcribe your spoken words into text. It stores the converted text in your browser locally and no data is uploaded anywhere. Learn more.
Speech to Text

System Requirements

Google Chrome
Windows/Mac/Linux
Internet Connection

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Dictation is a free online speech recognition software that will help you write emails, documents and essays using your voice narration and without typing.

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Spanish Dictionaries

There are two free Spanish-English dictionaries: our own dictionary and one from Collins. Each has its own strengths. Combined, they are unbeatable.

French and Italian Dictionaries

WordReference has two of its own dictionaries plus those of Collins. The French dictionary has over 250,000 translations and the Italian dictionary has nearly 200,000. These dictionaries continue to grow and improve as well. If you don't find what you are looking for in any of the dictionaries, search or ask in the forums.

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Free online dictionaries - Spanish, French, Italian, German and more. Conjugations, audio pronunciations and forums for your questions.

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Ce service gratuit de Google traduit instantanément des mots, des expressions et des pages Web du français vers plus de 100 autres langues.

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Association Ulysse de Lille 3. 5.1K likes. Nous sommes ouverts à tous les étudiants et aux personnels de Lille 3, pour partager nos cultures et échanger dans toutes les langues.

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The International Language Exchange Club in Lille

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Facebook group "Language Exchange Club Lille" is the platform for the language exchange meeting initiatives in different Lille cafes. http://www.histoiredesavoirs.com/language-exchange-meetings-lille Members of this group want to improve their language skills by meeting others face to face in an informal atmosphere. Normally, to the meetings come also native speakers.

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Calendrier - FRANGLISH French/English language exchange event in Lille (Lille) | Meetup

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Franglish is a French/English language exchange event taking place every week from 7 to 9pm in some of the best venues across Lille. Practicing is the best way to learn French and you'll discover Fren

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LyricsTraining est la nouvelle façon d'apprendre l'anglais et d'autres langues par le biais de la musique et des paroles de tes chansons préférées

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The United Kingdom is perhaps the most dialect-obsessed country in the world. With near-countless regional Englishes shaped by millennia of history, few nations boast as many varieties of language in such a compact geography.
(NOTE: This page uses the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For information about this notation, please visit my page of IPA Resources.)
The below lists several important types of British English. While not a complete account by any means, this page provides an overview of the accents and dialects most often discussed on this site and elsewhere.

Received Pronunciation

Received Pronunciation (a term by 19th Century linguist A.J. Ellis) is the probably the closest the United Kingdom has ever had to a "standard accent." Although originally related to the upper-classes in London and other areas of Southeast England, it is largely non-regional. You've likely heard the accent countless times in Jane Austen adaptations, Merchant Ivory films, and Oscar Wilde plays. It emerged from the 18th- and 19th-Century upper classes, and has remained the "gold standard" ever since.

Non-rhoticity, meaning the r at the ends of words isn't prounounced (mother sounds like "muhthuh").

Trap-bath split, meaning that certain a words, like bath, can't, and dance are pronounced with the broad-a in father. (This differs from most American accents, in which these words are pronounced with the short-a in cat.

The vowels tend to be a bit more conservative than other accents in Southern England, which have undergone significant vowel shifting over the past century.

Speech Samples:
Cockney

Cockney is probably the second most famous British accent. It originated in the East End of London, but shares many features with and influences other dialects in that region.

Raised vowel in words like trap and cat so these sounds like "trep" and "cet."

Non-rhoticity: see explanation above under Received Pronunciation, above.

Trap-bath split: see explanation above under Received Pronunciation.

London vowel shift: The vowel sounds are shifted around so that Cockney "day" sounds is pronounced IPA dæɪ (close to American "die") and Cockney buy verges near IPA bɒɪ (close to American "boy").

Glottal Stopping: the letter t is pronounced with the back of the throat (glottis) in between vowels; hence better becomes IPA be?ə (sounds to outsiders like "be'uh").

L-vocalization: The l at the end of words often becomes a vowel sound Hence pal can seem to sound like "pow." (I've seen this rendered in IPA as /w/, /o,/ and /ɰ/.)

Th-Fronting: The th in words like think or this is pronounced with a more forward consonant depending on the word: thing becomes "fing," this becomes "dis," and mother becomes "muhvah."

Speech Samples:
Estuary English (Southeast British)

Estuary is an accent derived from London English which has achieved a status slightly similar to "General American" in the US. Features of the accent can be heard around Southeast England, East Anglia, and perhaps further afield. It is arguably creeping into the Midlands and North.

Similar to Cockney, but in general Estuary speakers do not front th words or raise the vowel in trap. There are few hard-and-fast rules, however.

Glottal stoppingof 't' and l-vocalization (see above) are markers of this accent, but there is some debate about their frequency.

Speech Samples:
West Country (Southwest British)

West Country refers to a large swath of accents heard in the South of England, starting about fifty miles West of London and extending to the Welsh border.

Rhoticity, meaning that the letter r is pronounced after vowels. So, for example, whereas somebody from London would pronounce mother as "muthah," somebody from Bristol would say "mutherrr". (i.e. the way people pronounce the word in America or Ireland).

Otherwise, this is a huge dialect area, so there's tons of variation.

Speech Samples:
Midlands English

Midlands English is one of the more stigmatized of Englishes. Technically, this can be divided into East Midlands and West Midlands, but I won't get into the differences between the two just now. The most famous of these dialects is Brummie (Birmingham English).

The foot-strut merger, meaning that the syllable in foot and could is pronounced with the same syllable as strut and fudge. (IPA ʊ).

A system of vowels otherwise vaguely reminiscent of Australian accents, with short i in kit sometimes verging toward IPA kit ("keet") and extremely open "loose" dipthongs.

A variety of unusual vocabulary: some East Midlands dialects still feature a variant of the word "thou!"

Speech samples:
Northern England English

These are the accents and dialect spoken north of the midlands, in cities like Manchester, Leeds, and Liverpool. Related accents also found in rural Yorkshire, although there are some unique dialect features there that I won't get into now.

The foot-stut merger: (see the Midlands description above).

Non-rhoticity, except in some rural areas.

The dipthong in words like kite and ride is lengthened so that kite can become something like IPA ka:ɪt (i.e. it sounds a bit like "kaaaait")

Unique vocab includes use of the word mam to mean mother, similar to Irish English.

Speech Samples:

Geordie

Geordie usually refers to both the people and dialect of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, in Northeast England. The word may also refer to accents and dialects in Northeast England in general. I would classify this as a separate region from the rest of Northern England because it's so radically different from the language spoken in nearby cities.

The foot-stut merger(see the Midlands description above).

Non-rhoticity (in the cities at least)

The /ai/ dipthong in kite is raised to IPA ɛɪ, so it sounds a bit more like American or Standard British "kate."

The /au/ dipthong in "about" is pronounced IPA u: (that is, "oo") in strong dialects. Hence bout can sound like "boot."

Speech Samples:

Welsh English

This refers to the accents and dialects spoken in the country of Wales. The speech of this region is heavily influenced by the Welsh language, which remained more widely spoken in modern times than the other Celtic languages.

Usually non-rhotic.

English is generally modelled after Received Pronunciation or related accents, but with many holdovers from the Welsh language.

Syllables tend to be very evenly stressed, and the prosody of the accent is often very "musical".

The letter r is often trilled or tapped.

Some dialect words imported from the Welsh language.

Speech Samples:
Scottish English

This is the broad definition used to describe English as it is spoken in the country of Scotland. Note that Scottish English is different than Scots, a language derived from Northumbrian Old English that is spoken in Scotland as well. That being said, Scots has a strong influence on how English in Scotland is spoken.

Rhotic, with trilled or tapped r's.

Glottal stopping of the letter t when in between vowels (similar to Cockney and related accents).

Monopthongal pronounciations of the /ei/ and /ou/ dipthongs, so that that face becomes IPA fe:s and goat becomes IPA go:t.

Speech Samples:
Conclusion

This list is woefully incomplete. I can't count the smaller dialect areas that aren't covered here (East Anglia, Urban Cardiff, Cornish English, Northumberland, etc.) However, I've attempted to list the accents and dialects you'll see referenced the most on this blog and elsewhere.
1. Case Studies: Received Pronunciation. The British Library.↩

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The United Kingdom is perhaps the most dialect-obsessed country in the world. With near-countless regional Englishes shaped by millennia of history, few nations boast as many varieties of language in such a compact geography. (NOTE: This page uses the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For information about this notation, please visit my page of IPA Resources.)

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Roisin Hahessy moved from Ireland to Brazil and realized that translated verbatim, some English sayings are extremely silly. She even illustrated them! It happened to her when she was learning a new language and teaching English. Hahessy picked several of the most common for her drawings. I find myself partial to "Bob's your uncle", even if it is comparatively rare. Unlike "hold your horses", which is more often associated with the English speakers on the other side of pond.

Roisin Hahessy is an Irish illustrator now living in Brazil. Her style is colorful and whimsical, and somewhat sketch-like. Looking at her portfolio, you'd think she's cool as a cucumber!

More info: rosha.ie | facebook | behance (h/t: boredpanda)

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