[Digital Today reporter Chi-gyu Hwang] Google has added a pronunciation practice feature to mark the 20th anniversary of Google Translate's launch, TechCrunch reported on April 29.
The report said that after translating a word or sentence, users can press the "Pronounce" button in the "Practice" menu to display phonetic symbols for the translated text. When users speak out loud, the app scores the pronunciation and provides feedback such as, "Some pronunciations were not clear." The app also offers a feature that reads the text aloud.
The feature launched first in the United States and India and supports English, Spanish and Hindi. The method of practising by speaking words and sentences is similar to Duolingo.
Google last month launched a real-time headphone translation feature in its iOS app and expanded the list of supported countries on Android devices to Germany, Spain, France, Nigeria, Italy, Britain, Japan, Bangladesh and Thailand.
Chi-gyu Hwang
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