Awards & Prizes

In November 2015 the blog shared the news under the headline "And the award goes to…". The award was associated with Diario Vasco, the newspaper that has followed Forvo's growth.

It was one of several moments of outside recognition for a pronunciation project built by its community of native speakers.

Recognition for a pronunciation project rarely arrives in a single dramatic moment. More often it accumulates quietly, through mentions in local press, nods from the communities that use the service, and the slow satisfaction of seeing a word pronounced correctly by someone on the other side of the world. The awards page gathers these moments together as a reminder that a platform built on the voices of native speakers earns its standing one recording at a time, and that outside attention tends to follow the people who keep showing up to contribute.

What makes such recognition meaningful is that it reflects something larger than a single honor. A pronunciation reference grows through the accumulated effort of speakers who volunteer their voices, listeners who search for words in languages they are learning, and readers who follow along on the blog as new features and languages arrive. When a newspaper or a list of notable websites takes notice, it is really acknowledging that quiet collective work, the everyday habit of sharing how words sound so that others can learn them with confidence.

For anyone exploring the site, the awards section sits alongside the blog as part of the broader story of how the project has grown. It is less a trophy cabinet than a record of encouragement, showing that a service devoted to something as simple as saying a word correctly can resonate well beyond its own community. Visitors curious about languages, pronunciation, and the people behind the recordings will find that this corner of the site connects naturally to the rest, framing each honor as a step in an ongoing journey rather than an ending.