good dictionary which support text to speech or real voice pronunciation?
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22-10-2019 - |
Question
I have just switch to a mac recently. Trying to find some thing equivalent to Babylon on windows but haven't found any.
I wonder if are there any good dictionary software which support real voice pronunciation or at least text-to-speech? Other functions like one-click translation is also necessary.
Solution
OSX has a built in speech synthesizer which is quite good if you're looking for English pronunciation.
You can open up the terminal and enter the following command:
say "Hello! How are you?"
For dictionary I use the Dictionary application which is shipped with your OS as well. You can import multiple dictionary files into it. Here is a tutorial to do that.
The best part is that you can type ⌘ + ctrl + d to bring up the inline dictionary in cocoa applications. It's really handy.