Forvo, a crowdsource pronunciation dictionary in several languages

Description: Forvo is a website and app that provides audio pronunciations of words and languages in various languages along with their translation. These audio pronunciations are submitted by native speakers worldwide. Forvo is free to use and does not require having an account to listen to word pronunciations, although registration allows for additional features like contributing pronunciations and saving favorite words.

Evaluation: Forvo is a valuable and handy tool for finding out the correct pronunciation of words. With its help, students can autonomously check and learn words' pronunciation, while teachers can provide the site as a reference resource. Since it is crowdsourced, please consider that some pronunciations may not necessarily be standard. However, users who provide the pronunciation often also indicate whether it belongs to a specific dialect or speech community, so Forvo can be a helpful tool for those seeking to get familiarised with a specific dialect or accent.

Cost: Free.

Respect for privacy Privacy evaluations indicate how a tool handles personal data collection, storage, and sharing, including GDPR compliance and security measures, among others. The ICT-REV team provides them for informational purposes, reflecting our best understanding at the time of review, but assumes no legal responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of these evaluations and encourages users to conduct their own assessments: Medium/high. Forvo collects personal information such as username, email address, date of birth, gender, and spoken or studied language, together with service metadata, login information and others, for different operational and analytical purposes and to market its products. It does not sell data to third parties and shares it only to run the service. One of these third parties is Google Ad Manager and Google Analytics. Forvo’s privacy policy mentions the use of measures to ensure the security, secrecy, and confidentiality of data. Users are also informed about their rights to access, rectify, erase, restrict processing, object, and data portability. Forvo stores user data in the EEA, and processes it in compliance with applicable legislation, including Regulation (EU) 2016/677, that is the GDPR. See more here.

Type Of Interaction: Group/pair work - outsiders, Individual work,

Skills: Pronunciation,

Content: Website/other users supply, You supply,

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