Tips and Resources to Improve your English
More easy-to-understand, enjoyable English. That's it!
Firefox
- Firefox - Use this browser instead of Internet Explorer. Don't forget to install the IEView add-on to look Internet Explorer-only pages.
Audio
- AoA Audio Extractor - extract audio/sound or background music from video files
Software
- WordWeb free version - one-click English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows that can look up words in almost any program. It works off-line. Words' human pronuntations available (about 84MB).
Text-To-Speech
- Text-To-Speech - AT&T Demo
- NaturalReader 7 free version (No natural voices included)
- Next Up - Free voices for Text Aloud - Installation instructions
- VozMe - Text to MP3 web service! - added 23 Sep/2008
- Cepstral free voices - added 23 Sep/2008
iGoogle
The iGoogle service is your personalized Google page. You can add to your page news, and contents as mini-aplications (gadgets) in order to have "all what we need" in one page, to improve our English.
To use this service go to: http://www.google.com/ig and log-in first then add/remove contents and personalized your iGoogle page, e.g. look for 'English' to find and add English related gadgets.
Example of iGoogle English mini-applications (click on the image to enlarge):
