Put the cursor over to mouth icon to hear the speech
synthesizer read the sentence.
鍵頭點圖形可聽到電腦閱讀.
Double click on any word to get a Chinese translation of the word.
Welcome to Easy English "Speaks For Itself"This web site is designed for Chinese students who are learning English as a second language.
The answer is an unequivocal and emphatic, YES! It is good enough.
When you consider connection speed, and bandwidth limitations,
there is no other more practical way for learners to hear spoken English on the internet.
Although it is true that synthesized speech can never express the feeling or
subtle articulation of genuine speech there is, as of now, no better way to deliver an auditory experience of spoken English to such a vast audience.
Streaming audio offers another alternative but it is much more time consuming and expensive to produce. Audio files require a lot of memory and bandwidth. Where as, text files are tiny in comparison.
We do plan to include some streaming audio files in the future.
