[TAG] Two-cent tip for Linux Gazette

[Jimmy O'Regan]

2008/10/11 Ben Okopnik <ben at linuxgazette.net>:
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 01:01:08AM +0100, Jimmy O'Regan wrote:
>> 2008/9/16 Silas S. Brown <ssb22 at cam.ac.uk>:
>> >
>> > You shuld be able to use Gradint as well if you
>> > can find someone to record the words and
>> > phrases for you.
>>
>> I wanted to mention this at the time, but I couldn't find the link:
>> http://shtooka.net/ is a project aimed at just this idea - of
>> providing pronunciations of words in various languages.
>
> Awesome. Thanks, Jimmy! Kat's learning Russian, and it's handy to have
> a resource other than me - particularly with multiple speakers - for
> accent contrast.
>

Well, there's a Russian voice for the Fetival TTS system here:
http://festlang.berlios.de/docu/doku.php?id=russianru
which might be useful - I haven't used it recently, but IIRC the
quality is quite good. There are also a handful of Russian books
available at Librivox:
http://librivox.org/newcatalog/search_advanced.php?title=&author=&cat=&genre=&status=all&type=&language=Russian&date=&reader=&bc=&mc=&action=Search