Wednesday, May 22, 2013

The Sebastian Forvo, the top 50 sites, according to 'Time' - The País.com (Spain)

Forvo Media In S. L. San Sebastian can not cope. The news came as a surprise to them two days ago when they read in Time that his small company, which emerged after many hours of work and imagination, and years without charging a euro was among the top 50 websites in the world. From that instant “social networks have led a campaign that we could never imagine,” says Israel Rondon, web designer, and one of the founders of the project with Felix Vela.

“When we started it was unthinkable to live, indeed, for three years has been an illusion because we did not see the beginning of the tunnel. were working on other things that we kept and stole time to time to bring up something we thought. then added three more people, “says Rondon.

the web, cutting education, has about ten million visits a month and, according to its creators, “is the pronunciation guide world’s largest language. We thought of a project as tiny as ours, more traffic would be national. started with English, then Spanish and thereafter were added language, “says an excited Rondon. The free platform has almost two million words in 299 different languages. “I find it curious that we have a group of Tatars Forvo obsessed.”

The creators of this language do not use machines for their pronunciation, but are natives who speak and that means that depending on the area from which the individual is the same word can be pronounced different ways. “Not the same word in Castilian spoken by a citizen of Valladolid and one of Medellin, so both are included and then are the cities on a map from Google”, the company said.

No machines are used for their pronunciation, but are natives who speak and that means that depending on the area originally the same word is pronounced differently

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addition to finding the phonetic word in most existing languages, users can vote on pronunciations that seem good or bad, thus helping to eliminate errors and anomalies found in other dictionaries online.

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