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French Searchable Dictionary
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| Author: | S Levi | |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email | |
| Linguistic LingField(s): |
General Linguistics
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Germanic
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(Summary to the posting about an Online French Dictionary, 12.3075, Qs: French Dictionary) This week I posted a message looking for an electronic french dictionary that would be searchable in the pronunciation. By far, the biggest suggestion was a CD-ROM version of the Petit Robert 1996. There were also some other suggestions (below). Some comments are below. I have included some of the suggestions on where to find this, and also the place I ended up ordering it from. I also discovered that there is a brand new 2001/2 version, but I don't know if it still has this function, though I imagine it does. Thanks to all who replied. Susannah Levi svlevi@u.washington.edu "Le Petit Robert from 1996 (and certainly later) has a fully-supported phonetic search function, among many other bells and whistles." "I've found it to be an excellent tool, meeting all of my needs. You can search for any string of phonemes. Searches may include wildcards for single consonants or vowels, as well as sequences of unspecified segments. In Canada, it costs just under $100CDN, so I imagine that it should be about $60US. " "The Petit Robert ?lectronique has a function that allows the user to query by sound. The user clicks on the IPA characters composing the word and all the words sharing the same pronunciation are proposed." PLACES IN THE US: (I ordered it from this place. I have not received it yet, so I cannot comment on whether it actually works. It was more expensive than the canadian sites, but the canadian site would ship in 3-5 weeks, and this place put it in the mail when I called to order it.) http://www.europeanbook.com/ Le Petit Robert CD-ROM Hybride $119.95 http://www.europeanbook.com/dictilan.html Author: Robert Published by: Le Robert ISBN: 605639213106 PLACES IN FRANCE: @book{Robert96, author = {Paul Robert}, editor = {Josette Rey-Debove & Alain Rey}, title = {Version ?lectronique du Nouveau Petit Robert. Dictionnaire analogique et alphab?tique de la langue fran?aise}, year = {1996} Their address is: Dictionnaires Le Robert 27, rue de la Glaci?re F-75640 Paris Tel +33 1 / 43 16 45 00 Fax +33 1 / 43 16 45 45 Rey-Debove, J. & A. Rey (eds.). 1996. Nouveau petit Robert: Dictionnaire analogique et alphab?tique de la langue fran?aise. Paris : Dictionnaires le Robert. http://www.lerobert.com.fr/PR1_cdrom/petitrobert_cd.htm Also available at: http://www.fnac.com IN CANADA: http://www.archambault.ca/store/default.asp http://www.renaud-bray.com Thanks to the following people who responded: Damon Allen Davison davison@socal.rr.com Zoe Toft Michael Tjalve Jeffrey Steele E-Mail: jsteel1@po-box.mcgill.ca Jean Quirion Helene Ossipov <HELENE.OSSIPOV@asu.edu> Another suggestion (not the petit robert) was the following: From: Debbie Berkley <dmberk@microsoft.com> The Brulex is a database that I used as a text file and searched in Unix or DOS. It does have backwards pronunciation fields, too, which is kind of cool, but there's nothing fancy about it. Another suggestion (not with the petit robert) was the following: http://www.lexique.org from - Nabil Hathout Nabil.Hathout@univ-tlse2.fr Another suggestion (not the petit robert) was the following: If you can get an ordinary French dictionary (in a machine-readable form, of course), you could obtain transcriptions by using a speech-synthesis system. With our lab's system, for example, it is no problem at all doing this. You can download it for free at http://www.unil.ch/imm/docs/LAIP/LAIPTTS_SpeechMill_dl_fr.htm (There should be an English version of that page, but it does not seem to work at the moment. Martin Forst Martin.Forst@imm.unil.ch |
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| LL Issue: | 12.3082 | |
| Date Posted: | 12-Dec-2001 | |
| Original Query: | Read original query | |
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