MOSTAFA ELKADIRI Apps
Pronunciation Assistant 1.1
In English, the spelling of an English word does not always tellyouhow to pronounce or read this word and the same English letterorcombinations of letters can be pronounced and read differentlyindifferent words. This is really challenging for non-nativelearners.But if you can read phonetic transcription, you’ll beable topronounce any English word correctly without listening toits audiopronunciation. This app offers you two activities: Thefirst, helpsyou get familiar with a widely used transcriptionsystem (the Oxfordvariation of International Phonetic Alphabet(IPA)) and the symbolsit uses. The second activity helps youpractice pronouncing words ortexts of your choice which you mayfind difficult to pronounce. Theapp, of course, relies on thetext-to-speech engine present in yourAndroid devices. If yourdevice's language is English, you won'tneed anything to use it. ifnot, then it may need to download somedata from a googlerepository when you run it for the first time.But, Once you launchthe app for the second time, it will need nointernet connection.Just like all the apps I distribute on Google'splay store, andjudging by the results I get with my students whouse it, I am sureit will help you improve your English. Remember,Practice is thekey to pronouncing words correctly.
