Please help

[futurepy]

Hello,

I am not particularly interested in music, but in linguistics. My
first language is Chinese. In the Chinese dictionary for the Internet
I am making, I like to provide sound files to the words, so visitors
can listen to the pronunciations. Now I am looking for proper
software to create the sound files.

Recently I found an Internet English dictionary at www.dictionary.com.
There are sound files to the words. If you go to that web site,
enter any English word, you will have chance to open a sound file.

Can anyone detect what software is used for creating the sound files
at that site?

Thanks for help.

[Rosco]

this site requires a paid subscription to hear the sounds, but on the
information page there is this:

System Requirements

* Internet connection
* World-Wide Web browser with Cookies enabled
* For audio: sound hardware and software capable of playing .WAV files

-so I guess all you need is a .wav recorder of which there are thousands
and even one included as part of your windows operating system.

ross


futurepy wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am not particularly interested in music, but in linguistics. My
> first language is Chinese. In the Chinese dictionary for the Internet
> I am making, I like to provide sound files to the words, so visitors
> can listen to the pronunciations. Now I am looking for proper
> software to create the sound files.
>
> Recently I found an Internet English dictionary at www.dictionary.com.
> There are sound files to the words. If you go to that web site,
> enter any English word, you will have chance to open a sound file.
>
> Can anyone detect what software is used for creating the sound files
> at that site?
>
> Thanks for help.

[Arny Krueger]

"futurepy" > wrote in message
m
> Hello,
>
> I am not particularly interested in music, but in linguistics. My
> first language is Chinese. In the Chinese dictionary for the Internet
> I am making, I like to provide sound files to the words, so visitors
> can listen to the pronunciations. Now I am looking for proper
> software to create the sound files.
>
> Recently I found an Internet English dictionary at www.dictionary.com.
> There are sound files to the words. If you go to that web site,
> enter any English word, you will have chance to open a sound file.
>
> Can anyone detect what software is used for creating the sound files
> at that site?

According to that web site, the sound are .wav files. That's a very common
format, supported by virtually every kind of audio editing software there
is.

There are so many good programs for making audio recordings that exactly
which software a given site uses is almost totally irrelevant.

Here's a good audio editor that is also freeware - Audacity. Search Google
for the author's web site.