Talking online French dictionary

[Laure]

Hi there!
Does anyone know of a talking French dictionary online? so people can type in the word amd hear it in French?
Thanks

[Laure]

Audio dictionary: http://french.about.com/library/pronunciation/bl-audiodico-c.htm

Topic based pronunciation tips:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/french/lj/pronunciation/
http://www.languageguide.org/francais/grammar/pronunciation/
Here are the things I have found so far...
Type your text and hear it pronounced by a native speaker:
http://www.acapela-group.com/text-to-speech-interactive-demo.html

[Judy Skelton]

I saw text to speech translator recommended on a forum and have tried it out and been recommending it to colleagues. http://www.text-to-speech.imtranslator.net/# You just copy and paste text in (to keep the accents) and sit back and listen

[Jo Rhys-Jones]

Hi

None that I know of do exactly what you ask, but these are pretty good:

http://www.languageguide.org/ Native speaker soundfiles to check your pronounciation in many languages (inc. French, German, Spanish, Italian, etc) divided into topics (alphabet, clothes, sports etc)

Mind you there is some speach recognition software and opnline sites here: http://www.utm.edu/staff/globeg/speakfrench.html

And this amazing online talking dictionary http://www.dictionarist.com/ Online Talking Dictionary. Dictionarist provides translations in English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, Italian,
Russian, Turkish, Dutch, Greek, Chinese, Japanese and Korean dictionaries.

and a kiddie friendly one in French Spanish and German here http://www.literacycenter.net/play_learn/index.htm

Let us all know if you find anything!