With the recent changes in iTunes Store policies we can now extend our 10 promo codes giveaway to download Forvo Pronunciation app for free. Just leave a comment with contact info please.
Update: How to redeem the code.
Good news! Forvo is growing so healthy that we have decided to bring more people to our team.
- Do you love languages?
- Do you speak English or Spanish?
- Could you spend some time from your home helping us with the quality of our dictionary?
We have an offer for you! :)
Please contact for more information: info (at) forvo (dot) com.
Update 2010/12/09: Thanks for your interest! Position is closed.
Yesterday we received the Best Web 2.0 prize at diariovasco.com annual competition.
There are two reasons that make this prize really special. First, Forvo is a global website, with little relevance locally, so getting this prize in our hometown it’s just great. And second, it’s the first prize we’ve ever won.
We wanted to share the prize with you that make Forvo so great. Thanks to everyone for voting us and keep on pronouncing!
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:
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.
Last weeks have been very interesting for Forvo. During our travel to San Francisco and the Bay Area we have been lucky to meet great friends, colleagues and entrepreneurs. We also enjoy the standard tourist highlights :) We would like to thank to many people that has help us there: Raffaello, Eduardo, Antonio, Fernando, José, Juan Pablo.
We could also meet some companies very related to Forvo that I would like to recommend to you all:
- Wordnik: Thanks Erin for arranging the meeting. Wordnik is a huge English dictionary, but that’s not all. They want to know everything about those words, how to use them, relationships and… pronunciations.
- The Rosetta project is a global collaboration of language specialists and native speakers working to build a publicly accessible digital library of human languages. Laura Welcher is a passionate linguist leading this project at The Long Now Foundation.
We hope that more collaborations keep emerging from those great days.
It was weeks ago but we didn´t mention here. Greek, Japanese, Ukrainian, Finnish and Hungarian translations of Forvo are completed.
We are working on 10 more languages to release before the end of 2010, including Persian, Catalan, Romanian, Korean, Bulgarian, Turkish or Norwegian. If you feel you can help a bit on that you will be very welcome to the translation family.
Update: User asdfforvo is the winner. Congratulations!
Have you planned your holidays? Well, you already know that you can count on Forvo to improve your pronunciation of those typical travel words but this year we want to help you even more.
Thanks to our friends at Alquiler Costa del Sol we are giving away a full week stay in a nice apartment in Algarrobo Costa, Málaga (Spain). Yes! The heart of the sunny Costa del Sol.
Do you want to participate? Just follow these two steps.
1. Send a “participation tweet” including your Forvo username, i.e. with my username in brackets “[israel] I’m going to the Costa del Sol with @forvo More info: http://tinyurl.com/36utn43“.
Click on this button to make it faster: 
2. Add or pronounce a word in Forvo.
Every single word will count as a participation, so the more you collaborate the more your chances to win are. For example, 3 pronunciations count as 3 participations, it’s easy to understand.
The contest will be held between 07/14/2010 (16:00h*) and 07/21/2010 (16:00h*). The winner will be contacted and announced in this website after all the words and pronunciations are reviewed and validated. Give us a few days to do it. The participation tweet could be sent anytime from now on so we recommend you to join as soon as possible and start gathering words you want to add when the competition starts.
The prize includes:
- Apartment rental for 4 persons.
- Dates: A week of your election between 10/01/2010 to 12/15/2010.
- Features: Shared swimming pool, Shared garden, Fitted kitchen, Television, Air conditioning, Bed linen, Parking, Terrace.
The prize does not include:
- Transportation.
- Any other cost associated to your stay as meals, deposit to cover damage, etc.
The prize is available for any person older than 18.
The prize would not be refunded or changed in any way if the winner can not make use of it.
We hope you have a nice stay and a happy pronouncing!
* Time is UTC+2.
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.
