With the release of a new version of our main iOS App we have a bunch of new codes available so you can try it for free. Please ask for your free code in the comments of this post.

Video by Benmcmurry.

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.

We are happy to announce that one of the highest demanded features has just been launched: Favorite pronunciations.

In every pronunciation you will see an “Add to favorites” link to start your favorites list, your hard to pronounce list or just for listening them later. To see all the words you have marked as a favorite you will find a new list under your user profile.

This is a public list but remember you can hide all your personal activity at any time. You can see my favorites here.

We hope you enjoy this new feature and keep on using Forvo to learn how to pronounce everything.

We have received great feedback about our recently released iPhone App, but there are also some user with doubts about it.

First, I would like to thank to all the people who are downloading the app because it’s a big support for keeping Forvo alive (thanks!) But also, I understand that paying for something make people more demanding about the product.

So I would like to answer some of your questions:

• The app allows you to access to the unique content Forvo with your help has collected. If this is not good enough for you, please don’t download the app.
• We have plans to develop apps for other mobile platforms. (read Android)
• We have plans to develop apps for individual languages at a very reduced price. (Spanish pronunciations, French pronunciations, etc.)
• We have plans to add new browsing features and even translations.
• The app does not pretend to be the website. It’s a faster way of searching and listening to the pronunciations. Listening in the website through the standard iPhone player is a real pain. Furthermore, it has some useful features that doesn’t exist in the website as remembering your previous searches and activity.

And now to share a little of Forvo love, we have decided to give away 10 codes to download the app for free for the first 10 valid comments in this post(*). A good review in the iTunes Store would be appreciated ;)

* Only available for the U.S. iTunes Store. Please leave valid contact information.

Thanks to our good friends at Lasai for these great t-shirts. We are making plans so you can get one too.

Our first iPhone app is available at the Apple iTunes Store.

The initial release contains “only” pronunciations in English (almost 60,000 at this moment) but we plan to add all the languages you can find in Forvo very soon. The app is free for download and it´s the best posible experience to hear pronunciations on the iPhone. Check out our special site about this app in http://iphone.forvo.com or download the app in iTunes Store.

We are very happy with this app, its design, functionality, it´s just great. We hope you feel it too and tell us your impresions about it.

The first half of 2010 we´ve been very busy consolidating Forvo´s infrastructure. Now we are ready to release a bunch of amazing tools for you. Last week we announced Forvo Translate, now it´s time for more:

- Forvo API: More than 100 developers have signed up for an API account since we opened it. Now, we are happy to announce that is completely operative. We would love to see what great websites you create with Forvo pronunciations. Let´s show the world how to pronounce!

And as the last piece of Forvo you already know what is coming next… soon.

I have to admit that Forvo Translate started as a joke… Could we do a Translation service better than Google´s? The answer was yes. And we did it :)

Using Forvo´s API, we´ve added to Google Translate the only this is wrong with it: Human pronunciations.

Sure, Google have made a great job with their text-to-speech voice synthesis but if you speak other than English the results are just hilarious. Furthermore, Google have pronunciation enabled for just couple of languages. Forvo covers the 57 languages of Google Translate, and about 200 more possible to come.

So we are now introducing Forvo Translate. It´s almost the same that Google Translate but with authentic native pronunciation. Why don´t you give it a try and comment your thoughts on it?

Or maybe you will enjoy more this presentation of Forvo Translate by Ilmostro a Forvo Editor:

Ask yourself this… would you employ C-3PO to teach you Wookiee, if you could have Chewbacca do it?

The answer is NAAAAAAAAAAAAWGH

While we have yet to figure out how to take recordings from irascible aliens, we can already upload thousands of human pronounced words on your mobile… or android. Don’t take chances with artificial voices, go for the real thing!

Nobody worries about upsetting a droid, but you don’t want to upset a Wookiee by saying things wrong, do you?”

Stop Androids. Get Human.

Three new languages available to browse Forvo, Danish, Hungarian and Hindi. The editors who have made this possible are Olfine, Detheltsort, Frankie, Komal_K, so thanks to them.

Maybe you think that we are only releasing new languages these days. Not at all!! :) We are almost done for the API final release. There are more than 40 developers pre-registered and we can´t wait to see what they have in mind to create with Forvo pronunciations.

And we are also readying a special tool that we hope you are going to love as much as we do. Prepared to be surprised.