Comments on: Forvo Mobile

By: Adam Verner

Adam Verner — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:07:07 +0000

Hi – I’m in the middle of typing up a blog post about your excellent site – I’m a voice-over talent and it’s saved my butt numerous times. Sorry if this is not quite the right post for this comment, but it concerns browsers, so here goes:

How exactly are you working the audio player? Is it Java or Flash, or some combination of both? I am not able to listen to the audio samples in FireFox, my browser of choice. I’m not sure if the problem is on my end or not. Every time I want to listen I have to open up IE. I haven’t tried on my iPhone, but I definitely could see the advantage to that ability – I’d be able to check a name or word from within my booth without going to a computer.

Thanks for the great work!
Adam Verner

By: Forvo

Forvo — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:06:50 +0000

And what about playing pronunciations?

By: asdfforvo

asdfforvo — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 14:55:06 +0000

great improvement!

i tried it on Nokia n82:
1)The Flash didn’t got permission to use the mic and it staid waiting for permission, I can’t change the setting with n82 flash.
2)The Site is very slow on slow mobile cpu, I think a lighter version of forvo with less text, images and no googlemap would speed the site on mobile.

I think Java should work on all mobile platform?

or a small applet for most used mobile platforms like Nokia, Iphone, Blackberry and Windowmobile to choose [language List] and type the [word] and then you get the [Result] to click on the word and hear the pronunciation, or click on the red bottom to record the pronunciation.

submitting an applet for each mobile system will make forvo a famous site. “forvo APIs to let other developer to develop applets”

“Forvo is a useful site to use in travel, let the mobile ask/talk to the natives.”

good luck!