Description
★★★★★Pronunroid is an educational game that makes practicing English phonetics more fun!
It's aimed at practicing IPA (International Phonetics Alphabet) transcription of English words using General American accent. It has four main parts:
* Guess symbol: In this game, you are presented with three words that share a phonetic symbol which you have to guess.
* Guess pronunciation: In this game you are presented with a written word and you have to write the pronunciation for it in IPA.
* Guess spelling: In this game you are presented with the pronunciation of a word in IPA and you have to write the corresponding word. This, in addition to training your pronunciation skills, trains your spelling!
* Look up word: This function looks up the IPA pronunciation of a word.
Pronunroid is aimed at English as second language (ESL) learners. You can check out the symbols used at Wikitionary.
Right now, Pronunroid uses for the games the 2000 most common English words. However, you can try to look up the pronunciation of any word with the search feature. If Wordnik is aware of different pronunciations, you will get them all.
PERMISSIONS
The application requires access to Internet in order to download the pronunciations. It also sends anonymous statistics about its usage.
The external storage permission is needed for moving the app to the SD card.
S
Apr 27, 2012 11:44:16 PM
Great! Wonderful to practice with. Wish the font was larger. But a great app. Thanks!
Edris
Apr 26, 2012 12:12:56 AM
Homophones Doesn't recognize homophones: I wasn't misreading "won" in IPA, as I thought until I realized it required "one." Same with "heel/heal." Also, is the app supposed to read pronunciations? I've had it through several iterations and it never has on my GalaxyS 4G. Still a great app, despite some flat-out incorrect transcriptions: "the, with and other" don't all commonly feature eth: "with" is almost always unvoiced. All three examples I encountered within 2 minutes after updating, though they're not new issues.
Yasin
Apr 21, 2012 4:13:06 PM
Excellent As a student of linguistics, I find this app very helpful to practice phonetic description on the move.
jonvier
Feb 18, 2012 2:35:53 PM
Excellent work. It helps me a lot:-)
Richie
Dec 29, 2011 3:01:49 PM
Archos Does not work on Archos 10i :(
Oct 22, 2011 10:51:31 AM
Fixed The issues with case sensitivity and the keyboard are fixed in version 1.0.1
rosie
Oct 11, 2011 12:18:29 PM
Good idea but some issues It's case sensitive so doesn't recognise words beginning with capitals. Also the keyboard for the 'guess pron' game is incomplete.