Voice Over Dictionaries

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Voice and dialect information for professional actors and the people who hire them.

A free, online archive of primary source dialect and accent recordings for the performing arts.

Here are the 100 words most often mispronounced English words ("mispronunciation" among them). There are spelling rules in English,even if they are difficult to understand, so pronouncing a word correctly usually does help you spell it correctly. Several common errors are the result of rapid speech, so take your time speaking, correctly enunciating each word. Careful speech and avid reading are the best guides to correct spelling.

Answers.com marries the best of community-driven questions and answers with hundreds of respected and trusted editorial reference books. Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/about/#ixzz1reLnRYZY

A very handy pronunciation and research site for voice over narrators. Make sure to check out their "Tips, Tricks, Tactics" section if you are still stumped on a particular pronunciation.

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The purpose of this website to assist with the accurate pronunciation of common first and last Asian names. Very helpful for voice actors recording for global projects.

It’s just what the name implies. Words that you search are retrieved with their definition and an audio pronunciation of the searched word.

The Double-Tongued Dictionary records undocumented or under-documented words from the fringes of English, with a focus on slang, jargon, and new words. This site strives to record terms and expressions that are absent from, or are poorly covered in, mainstream dictionaries.

On this page, click the "Mistakes: Pronunciation" tab. You'll see a list of THE MOST COMMON FREQUENTLY MISPRONOUNCED WORDS VOICE ACTORS MAKE.

Online pronunciation guides to 9 varieties of the English language and 9 other languages.

Touted as the largest pronunciation guide in the world, this tool goes way beyond spoken English. The top languages covered are English, Portuguese, Russian, Italian, French, Spanish, Arabic, German, Czech and Swedish. And for the occasional Star Trek commercial, Klingon is also supported.

Google's free online language translation service instantly translates text and web pages. Be careful - Google Translate does not apply grammatical rules.

A free online talking dictionary of English pronunciation. It has over 14 million entries.

Welcome to inogolo-- the practical, easy-to-use website devoted to the English pronunciation of the names of people, places, and miscellaneous stuff. The site contains a searchable database of names with both phonetic and audio pronunciations in English.

IDEA was created in 1997 as a free, online archive of primary source dialect and accent recordings. All recordings are in English, are of native speakers, and include both English language dialects and English spoken in the accents of other languages.

Search for medical terms using this medical dictionary. The dictionary contains definitions and explanations of thousands of medical terms and also features pronunciations and abbreviations.

A medical dictionary with pronunciation guide.

Hear the correct pronunciation of any word.

MyMemory is the world's largest Translation Memory. MyMemory is 100% free. The site gives you quick access to a large number of translations originating from professional translators, customers and multilingual web content.

A pronunciation guide to names of public figures.

The ABC book a pronunciation guide.

Pronunciation patterns and map of North American dialects.

The dictionary of name pronunciation.

Pronunciations of medical terms.

VOA's pronunciation guide has helped people around the world pronounce challenging words in the news since 2000.

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