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    Posted: April 18 2011 at 07:59
One thing that frustrates me to no end is listening to an album, and I am unable to properly pronounce the band name.

Is it possible to provide phonetics in the bio? Or can you folks out there help me with the following band names

Fusioon
Le Orme (Lay Ormay?)
Ihre Kinder
Xhol Caravan
Igra Staklenih Perli
Arbete Och Fritid

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 18 2011 at 08:02
It would be useful if you had something written in your "Location" field, so that we know what is your native language (therefore knowing what your regular pronounciation are). 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 18 2011 at 08:13
^^^ you took the words right out of my mouth....
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 18 2011 at 08:14
Anyway I've also thought of this, maybe we could do a thread where, upon request, we post recording of the correct pronounciation of certain words. You can find a good pronounciation of Le Orme at the beginning of this video:


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 18 2011 at 08:50
Originally posted by Suedevanshoe Suedevanshoe wrote:

One thing that frustrates me to no end is listening to an album, and I am unable to properly pronounce the band name.

Is it possible to provide phonetics in the bio? Or can you folks out there help me with the following band names

Fusioon
Le Orme (Lay Ormay?)
Ihre Kinder
Xhol Caravan
Igra Staklenih Perli
Arbete Och Fritid

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!



There are plenty of text-to-speech synthesizers around, some are more reliable than others.

Here are few from Google Tranlsate, just click on the 'listen' button:

Le Orme (although 'Le' is not perfect)
Ihre Kinder
Igra Staklenih Perli (that's closest I can get)




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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 18 2011 at 10:47
Sounds like a good idea to me.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 18 2011 at 10:54
Hmm, I didn't know Google Translate does that!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 18 2011 at 13:02
Good idea, then I might find out how to pronounce IZZ.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 18 2011 at 13:45
Thank you everyone. This is great, I had no idea google had a translator.

Edited by Suedevanshoe - April 18 2011 at 13:46
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 18 2011 at 13:58
I've always wondered how the word "yogurt" is pronounced.
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