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Shellie
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Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 10:48 pm Post subject: Pronounce Polish words (online tool)

I stumbled on this website called the Expressivo Text to Speech Reader Service.

http://say.expressivo.com/

You can either type in, or cut and paste your polish words, phrases, or other Polish Text and choose the voice to pronounce it. There are 6 choices and TWO of them are polish, one male and one female.

I found this quite helpful because I can not prounce one word of Polish. I'd like to hear some comments from Zenon and others about the accuracy of this tool............. anyone?

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Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2009 5:16 am Post subject:

In my opinion Polish pronunciation quality of the tool is very good.

I have been using it for some time in the posts explaining Surnames origins and meaning (e.g. the last surname explanation here: http://forum.polishorigins.com/viewtopic.php?p=1219#1219 ) . And when I read post and comments in Past Prologue blog by Donna here: http://pastprologue.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/say-it-in-polish/ I think it may not only be helpful but it can also give a lot of of fun Smile

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So, have a nice weekend, or in Polish: http://say.expressivo.com/jacek/Miłego_weekendu! Exclamation

Shellie
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Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 4:25 am Post subject:

Ha! You are always on top of things Zenon! If I had bothered to read the surname forum I could have saved you the trouble of replying!

But maybe a few new readers who have not browsed the surname section will find this topic and discover the tool. I really think it's fun to use. Maybe when we finally meet again in person, I'll actually be able to pronounce some good Polish words Wink

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Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2012 7:57 am Post subject:

Zenon wrote:

In my opinion Polish pronunciation quality of the tool is very good.

So, have a nice weekend, or in Polish: http://say.expressivo.com/jacek/Miłego_weekendu! Exclamation

Zenon,

Between SayExpressivo and Google, which do you think sounds closer to your mother tongue? I have just compared a three-line message between them and SayExpressivo is pronounced in a more fluent way, but I don't know if it is more accurated.

Thank you.
Gilberto

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Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2012 2:50 am Post subject:

Gilberto,
Indeed text read by SayExpressivo (http://www.ivona.com) is more fluent and sounds more natural than Google.
Pozdrawiam serdecznie! Very Happy

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Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2012 5:40 am Post subject:

I agree with Slav, SayExpressivo sounds more natural. However google translate is not that bad, all Poles would understood if you were speaking like google Wink

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Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2012 2:03 am Post subject:

There is another dictionary on the web http://glosbe.com/en/pl/ some may find useful. Click on speaker icon right next to the translated word to hear pronounciation. Not all words have its coresponding sounds, but these available are articualted by real pple.

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Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2012 6:19 am Post subject:

There is a famous line in a Polish comedy How I Unleashed World War II where the main protagonist is captured by the Gestapo and the officer tries to record his name and birth place. The witty Pole makes fools out of his captors by introducing himself as:

Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz

born in

Chrząszczyżewoszyce powiat Łękołody

Have fun listening to how it is pronounced: http://www.ivona.com/pl/?tk=739hgUQVY1

Actually, Google Translator fails and mispronounces Brzęczyszczykiewicz and Chrząszczyżewoszyce! Very Happy

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Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2012 3:29 pm Post subject:

And this is the famous scene from the movie itself:

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Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 9:04 am Post subject:

Shellie,
I also like this pronunciation site - mostly because I am taken in by the way the eyes follow the cursor!
http://www.oddcast.com/home/demos/tts/tts_example.php?sitepal
I think the pronunciation is of a similar (identical?) standard to Ivona?
Your 'maybe a few new readers who have not browsed the surname section will find this topic and discover the tool' is a very valid point indeed - some sites cannot be 'advertised' too much Smile

Thanks Slav for the film extract - German film with Polish subtitles!! Despite which I can understand what is going on Wink

Which reminds me, I like the way road signs in Germany still show the name Stettin...
Bronwyn.

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Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 4:59 pm Post subject:

I have been trying many things on the <span>SayExpressivo site with some very interesting results. I have a ship manifest that lists my great grandmother's surname as Tuburska rather than Deborski. For a long time family stories indicated that the surname had been changed from the original Polish. Using the </span>
<span>Moikrewni website, I learned that both Deborski and Dęborski are extremely rare, but that Tuburski/Tuburska and Tyburski/Tyburska are more common and are concentrated near Rypin where I have found other family connections. Entering Deborski and Tyburski in the SayExpressivo site, they sound very close to one another. I think somewhere along the line the name was recorded as it was heard phonetically.</span>

Thanks for pointing me to this site. I find it very useful.

Gary Deborski

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