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New languages come in pairs. We mentioned German in our latest post but also Dutch was released. It was an awesome piece of work from more than 20 people that joined their effors to complete these translations. Thanks! These are the...

Maximum speed at Forvo HQ. After ending the beta stage , now we are happy to announce the first steps of our long-waited API . We have opened a new site to give you more information about it and also to start receiving your pre-inscriptions ....

It has been almost two years online collecting the greatest pronunciation database in the world so we decided last week to close the Beta stage of Forvo . The last improvements were related to the recorder. Now it's more accurate and...

Another big milestone in Forvo development: we are now releasing Forvo in Arabic . This is the first language we not only translate but adapt the layout to the right to left writing. Thanks to our dear editor jasmen who has guided us in all...

Almost everyday we find a new article or post about Forvo, here are some recent highlights: - BBC.co.uk , in Persian. - Habrahabr , in Russian. What about new languages? We are working on these translations, if you want to...

Zababa , czech editor. Q: A little bit about you. A: My name is Sven and I come from Liberec, Czech Republic. I currently live in Germany where I studied linguistics and now work on the moribund N|uu language. I speak Czech (my mother...

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Reading the most popular posts of 2009 from the interesting blog Global by design , I've found one article about the need for a standard language change / choose icon. Many icons have become quite standard in the web world: rss icon ,...

The year is ending but we continue working hard and bringing new languages to Forvo. This time thanks to OziX for the Swedish translation, and Shady_arc and Eugeniavlasova for the Russian translation. We are working on more languages to...

Do you think Forvo is useful? We hope so :) But here is a nice figure that confims that idea. Do you know how many times pronunciations have been listened to on Forvo? Well, more than 25 million times. To be exact: 25.307.322 .

Good news: We are very happy to announce the release of Forvo in Portuguese , Italian and French ! As promised by the end of the year we would have more languages available and here it is the first one. The delay until the very end of...

Forvo supports the following manifesto: A group of journalists, bloggers, professionals and creators want to express their firm opposition to the inclusion in a Draft Law of some changes to Spanish laws restricting the freedoms of expression,...

Portuguese speakers have always been very active at Forvo. They have just made their language to be the one with more pronunciations making English number 2 for the first time. We hope to have soon a Portuguese version of Forvo, and not...

Pleitecas , spanish editor. Q: A little bit about you. A: My name is Pedro. I'm an almost retired spaniard looking for developin my hobby, my comunication skills. I love nature and peace. I studied Geography. I'm sure we can be happy...

One of things we most like about Forvo is the oportunity to meet some incredible valuable people. That's why we are starting a new section in this blog to introduce you to some of the editors that collaborate at Forvo. Snowcrocus , an...