Pronunciation Guide
The first thing to keep in mind, if you're stressed out about pronouncing every word in your recording perfectly, is: don't be! Everybody at LibriVox is a volunteer, working on their free time, so we don't expect perfection. Most of us have had no professional training, and we all slaughter words from time to time. You should enjoy reading for LibriVox, and if laboring over every unfamiliar word interferes with that, then just take it easy. Nobody is going to be upset if you mispronounce some words in your recording, and no one is going to insist that you re-record it. You don't even need to apologize for mispronouncing unfamiliar or foreign words in your file. After all, even a person who speaks 20 different languages fluently still has a lot of new words to learn!
All the same, many of us want to pronounce words approximately close to the standard, whatever that means. The links below are provided to make it quicker and easier to find acceptable pronunciations of the many different unfamiliar words you might run across, and to provide some order to the dizzying number of resources out there. But this page is by no means comprehensive. Unfortunately, there is no single web site that gives a pronunciation of every word in every language. So if you can't find the word you're looking for after trying the stuff below, or if you just decide that it's not worth the effort to do so (which is completely up to you), then you can always follow the sagely advice of one of our LibriVox volunteers, ChipDoc:
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