Howjsay Pronunciation app for iPhone and iPad
4.0 (
320 ratings )
Reference
Education
Developer:
Ever10 Ltd
Free
Current version:
11.5, last update: 1 year ago
First release : 15 Oct 2009
App size: 8.96 Mb
Make mispronunciations a thing of the past with the world’s most accurate and comprehensive pronunciation dictionary.
Unlike most other apps no synthetic pronunciation is used, with every word carefully researched, and professionally recorded.
"What I love is it uses a real human voice for audio playback, and has words for pronunciation that my dictionary apps dont even have for definitions."
"I feel like I now have a secret, powerful, linguistic advantage!"
Features:
■ Over 180,000 individually recorded words & phrases
■ Comprehensive dictionary including medical, legal, scientific, industry jargon and even current affairs and names
■ Accurate pronunciation of heteronyms (words which are spelled the same but pronounced differently depending on context) e.g, tear, dove, close, live, alternate, graduate, etc
■ Auto-complete and spelling suggestions
■ Pronunciation history
■ Favourites
■ Search definitions online
Note: An internet connection is required to download the audio and perform new searches, as the Howjsay database is too large to download and is continuously updated.
Pros and cons of Howjsay Pronunciation app for iPhone and iPad
Howjsay Pronunciation app good for
Would be better if we can save the words that we have checked
Ive been using the HowJSay site for more five years now, and Im really happy to announce that their app is just as awesome as their site!
I do recommend it!
Great app! Plenty of words. Wish there were in other languages such as French, German, Italian and so on. :-). Thanks.
This application has been a wonderful tool for my ever-growing English learning as a non-native speaker.
Howjsay is a great tool that enrich my pronunciation. Im user for for years and I am surprised everyday by its usefulness.
Very helpful. I use it every time I see a different word and am not sure how to pronounce it. I use it with my students as well and I often recommend it. Im very pleased with it.
Some bad moments
Pop up message saying problem to connect to Internet, while there is a good WiFi connection as usual!?
Disappointing. The information leads on to believe its multilingual. It isnt. It is English pronunciation only, no translation or pronunciation for other languages. $4.00 wasted
It is perfect for my studies but... The accent is very strong & sadly I have to replay to get it right. Not a huge issue, I cant figure out how to change it or it isnt available..
I can hardly think enough wonderful things to say about this pronouncing dictionary. Without exception it handles the most incredibly rare and complicated words.
For instance tonight I had it pronounce fluocinonide and acetonide. Acetonide does not even appear in my best dictionaries! Yet, how do you say pronounced them both wonderfully.
Since I care about saying things correctly, I use this app constantly. Rush out and get it. :-)
It does what it says but its a British accent, only does one word at a time (not a sentence) and does not have an autocorrect. These are petty basic stuff that it lacks. Not worth the money.
Its not working . When I tap on a word for pronunciation is says "error downloading word please check internet connectivity and try again"!! My internet is connected!! I even re-downloaded the app. Im frustrated !