This page contains the results of some language research
AUDIO RESOURCES ON THE INTERNET
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german.about.com/library/media/sound/
Contains some wav files of german words being spoken, however
the words are not very numerous and are not named as the text
of the word begin spoken. Sound quality ok .eg
german.about.com/library/media/sound/gnacht2.wav
is gute nacht being spoken
german.about.com/library/anfang/blanfang01.htm
contains the text and translations of a few words
german.about.com/library/anfang/blanfang06.htm
contains the text and translations of some phrases
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academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/modlang/carasi/site/lessons/lesson16/sound/primo.wav
Contains the numbers 1-5 in italian, similarly for
academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/modlang/carasi/site/lessons/lesson16/sound/sesto.wav
academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/modlang/carasi/site/lessons/lesson16/sound/undicesimo.wav
academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/modlang/carasi/site/lessons/lesson16/sound/sedicesimo.wav
sound quality is ok but not very good/ poor. There appear to be many phrases
on this site but there organisation is not very logical. You would
probably need a recursive wget to get the urls.
ENGLISH AUDIO
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www.dlc.fi/~frog/wavs/movie-index.htm
Contains a list of all the movies from which sound file wav
phrases have been extracted. A big selection.
www.dlc.fi/~frog/wavs/insults.htm
Contains links (with phrase text) to comical insults including
Rowan atkinsons Black-Adder insults (about 4)
www.dlc.fi/~frog/wavs/austinpowers.htm
links to phrases by austin powers (mike myers) about 30
Good sound clarity.
FILE EXAMPLES
www.dlc.fi/~frog/wavs/biglaser.wav
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Mr President in twelve hours I will destroy washington D.C with
this giant laser.
koti.mbnet.fi/badbee/wavs/balls4breakfast.wav
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If that happens again, I´m going to have your balls for
breakfast, OK?
www.dlc.fi/~frog/wavs/coolmen.htm
www.dlc.fi/~frog/wavs/nicholson.htm
www.dlc.fi/~frog/wavs/deniro.htm
Contains links to sound files of English phrases spoken by
Robert Deniro in movies. Very macho. Good quality sound.
The text of the phrase is in this page as a hyperlink.
The sound files are at
www.dlc.fi/~frog/wavs/mistake.wav etc
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www.dlc.fi/~frog/wavs/hal.htm
contains links and text to various english phrases spoken by
Hal the computer in 2001 space odyssey.
www.dlc.fi/~frog/wavs/soundlinks.htm
Contains good links to different wav sound site with an emphasis
on movies and humour
CATALAN AUDIO
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http://www.catalonia.gencat.es/menu.catala.html
Supposedly an online catalan course with audio (from the Generalitat)
but the page was not available
WORD LISTS
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http://www.uni-mainz.de/~lustig/guarani/gua_de.txt
A German, Spanish, Guarani (?) Word list, that is, single
parallel word rows. Quite long
http://www.css.qmul.ac.uk/foreign/eng-spanish.htm
Short Spanish english wordlist of Computing terms
arranged in 'definition' style like html dl lists
Only about 100 terms
http://www.css.qmul.ac.uk/foreign/eng-german.htm
Same for english german
http://users.otenet.gr/~vamvakos/catala.htm
The index page for a Greek / Catalan (why??) set of wordlists
About a few thousand entries. Wordlists are in the format
greek word = catalan word.
Each letter of the greek alphabet is a seperate html page
http://www.italian-food-net.ittc.it/dizionar.htm#C
Italian/ English culinary list (few hundred entries)
Format is word=word (no search)
BILINGUAL TEXT PHRASES
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http://www.proverbios.com/doc/sample.doc
Spanish, English and English, Spanish proverbs and sayings.
Word document.(quantity 300). However the translations are
translations of the meaning of the proverb rather than
a literal translation.
http://cogweb.ucla.edu/Discourse/Proverbs/Italian.html
about 20 Italian/ English proverb phrases. Good interesting
phrases.
http://www.serve.com/shea/germusa/prov1.htm
English, German proverb phrases about 500. Not very
poetical
http://cogweb.ucla.edu/Discourse/Proverbs/index.html
Links to other proverb pages
http://cogweb.ucla.edu/Discourse/Proverbs/Chinese.html
Nice chinese proverbs, english only, about 50
http://www.serve.com/shea/spruch.htm
about 500 german proverbs, no translation
DICTIONARIES
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http://www.grec.net/home/cel/dicc.htm
Online Catalan/ Catalan dictionary searchable through post method
PORTALS
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http://www.yourdictionary.com/languages/romance.html
Good links
http://catalunya-lliure.com/curs/catala.html
University of Barcelona links to catalan resources on the
internet including good links to audio resources (BUT BROKEN).
http://www.gardengrow.com/info/Arts/Movies/Multimedia/Audio/
Some links
COMPLETELY MISCELANEOUS
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http://www.cookwood.com/personal/learncatalan.html
Good use of frames and colours by the author of visual quickstart
perl.
http://www.itunisie.com/nihed/spanish.html
Interesting purple background image.
http://developer.netscape.com/docs/manuals/communicator/jsref/
Online Reference manual for javascript, very good
SPANISH AUDIO
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http://members.aol.com/alvareze/spanish/
au format files of a number of basic spanish words, about a
thousand files. Files are named, generally in accordance with
the word that they represent. Includes a java applet that
playes the sound. Nice clean interface, decent web site design
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/languages/spanish/talk/
A spanish course with audio real-audio format.
http://home.earthlink.net/~mikcar/
wav format files, named usually (but perhaps not always)
in accordance with the sound being spoken.
Only a few hundred in total, but some are new
ie not already in the vocab tutor. Each wav file is
linked by an image that depicts the word being spoken.
Sound quality unknown.
http://www.infocostarica.com/interactive/sayitinspanish.html
Very interesting site which provides an interface to
a bell labs site which generates any spanish sentence in wav
aiff etc format, using speach synthesis. The interface appears
to be simple querystring, but from the barcelona internet
cafe the page is unavailable at the moment. A mexican or
castillian accent is available
http://www.naturalvoices.att.com/
The home page of this bell labs speach synthesis system
http://www.naturalvoices.att.com/demos
Allows the user to generate a wav or other file from text
Uses a post method from a form. Should be automatable with
something like curl or java. But not javascript
Supports the languages Spanish, German, French, English (us and uk)
The sound files can be saved, once they have been played
The sound quality is sort of interesting. Sometimes the words do
not seem properly ennunciated especially the first and last words
and the accent of the sentence is almost never is the right place.
Nevertheless, the sound files are usable.
Has a limit of 40 words per day per ip host!
http://www.bell-labs.com/project/tts/spanish.html
This seems to be a different interface but is not working
at the moment
http://mld.ursinus.edu/~jarana/Ejercicios/self-check/directions/direct3.html
Contains wav files of spanish phrases such as giving directions
The files have a very low volume (too low for me). The files are
not named according to the words they depict.
http://www.businessspanish.com/Ejercicios/businesses1.htm
mp3 files of spanish words and phrases, files not named in accordance
with words spoken. Sound quality passable but not good
http://www.businessspanish.com/Topics.htm
Good vocab lists with mp3 audio. mp3 named according to english
word which is the translation of the word spoken
http://travlang.com/languages/
Good au format files of many languages. The files are NOT named
according to the word or phrase spoken. Each language does not
contain many words or phrases about 200. Each word contains
english translation and sound. Lots and lots of ads and pop ups
very annoying to use interactively. But words are spoken clearly
and well
http://travlang.com/languages/soundhelp.html
Good sound application links