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British English dictionary app with spoken pronunciation

By Andrew90, 19 October, 2021

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Hi all, just wondering if anyone knows of a British English dictionary app that allows you to hear how a word is pronounced after you’ve looked it up spoken by a human voice? :-) Might be a longshot but thought I’d ask anyway. Or just does anyone know if British English dictionaries in general if there isn’t one with spoken pronunciations available.

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Google translator or any online translator

By Unregistered User (not verified)

1 year 11 months ago

Hi!
Simply read with British voiceover any English text!
And you will have an enough good imagination of the pronunciation!
Cheers!

Oxford Dictionary of English

By Amir

1 year 11 months ago

Member of the AppleVis Blog Team

Your best bet, IMO, would be Oxford Dictionary of English (ODE), whose accessibility isn't as good as, say, Merriam-Webster, but its audio pronunciation feature is superb: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/oxford-dictionary-of-english/id978674211
To the person who suggested this, using VO or Google Translate for pronunciation needs isn't a good idea.

Collins English Dictionary and Thesaurus

By Malcolm13

1 year 11 months ago

This is the one I use, you can download audio pronunciations:

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/collins-dictionary-thesaurus/id926221123

zeirus-fr I appreciate your…

By Andrew90

1 year 11 months ago

In reply to Google translator or any online translator by Unregistered User (not verified)

zeirus-fr
I appreciate your comment, but if I was going to do that, I wouldn't have posted the question. There are times when I want to know the british pronunciation of words or spellings. Particularly as (no offense to my American friends), but so much of the media today is produced in America, and British/Australian/NewZealand spell some words and pronounce words differently. Take Mom verses Mum for instance. Not bad, it is just how language has evolved in different areas of the world. Screen readers, majority of which are produced in America, so their pronounciations of some words may not be the way british pronounce them. Simply because American's and british have different ways of pronouncing some words, so a screen reader can only pronounce words in the way it has been programmed, so if a british programmer is coding the screen reader, words will be spelled or pronounced the way a british person would. Likewise, if An American was coding a screen reader, the words would be pronounced how Americans do. I have already tried out a couple of words with voiceover tonight after reading your comment, and I can tell you It didn't matter which voiceover language I used, all the words were pronounced the same no matter if I was using British, American, Australian, Irish, South African or indian english. Your comment wouldn't be helpful to say, a person studying linguistics or an author or a person wanting to audio record reading text for example.

Thanks for these app suggestions :)

By Andrew90

1 year 11 months ago

Thanks heaps to the awesome people who provided app suggestions. I will try them both out. :)

Oxford English Dictionary just became much more accessible

By Amir

1 year 11 months ago

Member of the AppleVis Blog Team

In reply to Thanks for these app suggestions :) by Andrew90

You're welcome. I just noticed that Oxford English Dictionary (OED) received an update few days ago, which resulted in the app and its Definition text area becoming quite accessible and VO-friendly. Audio pronunciations have also been improved. It's the most up-to-date British English dictionary and the latest release contains the most recent Oxford 2021 updates, but is subscription-based -- around $19 per year I think.

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