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Date Archives: 2011

Promt teams with Forvo

Promt , creator of popular translation services has teamed up with Forvo adding Forvo pronunciations into their translation software. This is the first translation service that is powered by Forvo native speakers giving the users the real...


October 3, 2011

A poem dedicated to Forvo

Created by Alexander . You never stop surprising us. Forvo.com is the greatest resource Of words, names and phrases and sounds, of course. You can search and you'll find every word seen around You just click on the play button and...


August 3, 2011

New languages available

We have just added new languages to Forvo. You can now add and pronounce words in: - Nogai - Jamaican Patois - Gan Chinese - Burushaski - Shoshoni - Silesian - Okinawan - Minangkabau ... and more to come...


July 4, 2011

Forvo in Tekzilla

See Veronica Belmont talk about Forvo on Tekzilla.


June 12, 2011

Happy 1 million pronunciations!

We are celebrating these days our third year online and coinciding with this anniversary we have reached an amazing number of pronunciations: 1,000,000 . We have no words to thank you for making this possible but we have a graphic instead :)...


May 23, 2011

Iwaidja Inyman: Helping endangered languages

One of the things that we love in Forvo is helping endangered languages to create a database of recordings for the future generations. Recently we have contacted Bruce Birch from the Iwaidja Inyman project and they are starting to record...


May 2, 2011

Forvo at the Laughing Squid

While we keep on working on new improvements for the website we are happy to see more and more people discovering and enjoying Forvo. Here is this week's review at the laughingsquid.com BTW: Yes, we are aware how close we are to the...


April 30, 2011

Forvo Pronunciations: Irréprochable

Comment faites-vous lorsque vous devez prononcer à l’antenne un mot ou un nom étranger que vous ne connaissez pas? La solution existe, elle s'appelle Forvo. C'est le plus grand dictionnaire de pronciation en ligne au...


February 18, 2011

Forvo future

This image shows pretty well what we do in Forvo. We love it! BTW: It's a famous quote by Herb Kelleher and you can get a poster here .


February 8, 2011

Recent videos about Forvo

Rosana Hermann in R7 (Portuguese) Radio TV Portugal (Portuguese) Forvo in Drumbeat Festival by La vanguardia newspaper (Spanish)


January 28, 2011