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Today I found an interesting tool.
I know Google Translate, it is a very useful tool. But today I searched in Google for "querying pronunciation" (my mother tongue is Brazilian Portuguese, and I'm improving my English).
If you search for "<anything> pronunciation", Google will show a box where you can listen the word, and while listening you will see lip/tongue movements, you can listen also in slow motion, and the best feature I see: a "Practice" button. Clicking, it will record your voice speaking the word and it will say if you said correctly, and if not, it will give clues like "it looks you said xxx instead" or "Good Job".
I want to ask what you think about this tool. Is it suggesting things correctly? Is it an ok tool to help on listening?
Right click the page and select "Inspect Element", then go to the network tab. Now, refresh the page with the network panel still open. Wait until nothing is showing up there anymore. While waiting, make sure not to get your mouse near the Listen button. Once nothing is showing up in the network panel, hover and click the listen button. As soon as you hover the listen button, an entry will appear that says "batchexecute". Find this entry. It should be above entries that say log?format=json&hasfast=….
Click on that and then on the right select the "Response" tab. There should be a bunch of random characters that go off the screen very far to the right
Select just that text and copy it. The easiest way to do this is to scroll all the way to the right first and then click and hold to the right of the ending quotation mark, then move your mouse up to the line above, then move your mouse down to reach the starting quotation mark, holding the mouse the whole time.
Go to the console tab and type v= then paste then press enter. Then, paste this into the console and press enter
{
const a = document.createElement("a");
a.href = "data:audio/mp3;base64,"+JSON.parse(v)[0];
a.download = "file.mp3";
a.click();
}
The mp3 file will download.
- Google search the word of which you want to download pronunciation by entering the query :"*How to pronounce *word**"
- Right-click the page and click View page source.
- Search for Mp3. screenshot
- click the mp3 link.
- Click the 3 dots and click Download.