Tài liệu Bồi dưỡng chuyên môn cấp THCS môn Tiếng Anh - Phần 3 - Năm học 2017-2018 - Sở GD & ĐT Khánh Hòa

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TEXT TO SPEECH (TTS) 
(1) Text To Speech (Free online) 
 - Step 1: Click on the link  
 - Step 2: Type of copy and paste your text in the box (up to 50000 characters). 
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 - Step 3: Select language, voice and speed. 
 - Step 4: Click on Create Audio File and wait in about 1 minute. 
 - Step 5: Check the MP3 file, then click on Download audio file. 
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(2) Sound of Text (Free Online) 
 - Step 1: Click on the link  
 - Step 2: Type or copy and paste what you want to hear (up to 100 characters). 
 - Step 3: Click Submit. 
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 - Step 4: Check the MP3 file, then click on Save. 
(3) Advantages and Disadvantages: 
* Advantages: 
 - Different native speaker accents (US, UK, Australia) 
 - Auditory reinforcement of correct pronunciation 
 - Easy to understand 
 - Always enunciated 
* Disadvantages: 
 - Variation in quality & pronunciation (bow) 
 - Cadence or intonation can be wrong 
 - Sometimes incorrect pronunciation (read = reed or red) 
 - Grammatically inaccurate homonyms accepted (to, too, two) 
 + She has a motorbike too. 
 + She has two motorbikes too. 
 + She wants to have two motorbikes too. 
 + She wants too have to motorbikes two.