Fun text-to speech demo to practice pronunciation

text to speech

Here’s a really fun way to practice pronunciation. oddcast.com has a really neat text-to-speech demo which includes a talking avatar and a variety of different voices to choose from (male and female). The different accents included in the demo are US, UK, Australian and South African.The text-to-speech quality is excellent and best of all, it’s free!

http://www.oddcast.com/home/demos/tts/tts_example.php

Simple Past: ED endings

Pronunciation

 

 

 

 

 

Here is a great link to understand how to pronounce ed endings in English:   http://www.englishclub.com/pronunciation/-ed.htm

Once you’re done reading the lesson, I’ve attached some worksheets for extra practice….

Enjoy!

ED ENDINGS PRACTICE WORKSHEET 1

ED ENDINGS PRACTICE WORKSHEET 2

Pronouncing ed endings practice