Singer’s Diction

Websites:

The International Phonetic Alphabet (I.P.A) is a very useful tool for singers to
use, when learning to pronounce foreign language texts of songs and arias.
I've provided links to web sites as well as some books for study. The rules for
singer's diction sometimes vary from spoken diction.

ALTA VISTA TRANSLATIONS
Need to translate your arias? Whether you are translating an aria or a full web page, you can past your text or the url into Babel Fish, choose the language,
and presto you have your translation.
http://babelfish.yahoo.com/

THE DICTION DOMAIN
This is a great web site by Yvonne DeChance and Candice Magner
http://www.scaredofthat.com/dictiondomain/

DISTINCTIVE VOWELS SOUNDS OF AMERICAN AND BRITISH ENGLISH
http://www.ex.ac.uk/german/abinitio/pronounce/

FREE TRANSLATION
http://www.freetranslation.com/

GERMAN PRONOUNCIATION GUIDE
http://userweb.port.ac.uk/~joyce1/abinitio/pronounce/

JUST AS SPOKEN: PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION TOOL
http://www.bergsoft.de/english/index.html

INTERNATIONAL PHONETIC ALPHABET: DOWLOADABLE FONTS
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=encore-ipa&_sc=1

IPA SOUCE.COM
Bard Suverkrop's wonderful site with IPA transcriptions of songs and arias.
http://www.ipasource.com

ITALIAN PRONUNCIATION
http://italian.about.com/od/pronunciation/Pronunciation.htm

LANGUAGE TRANSLATIONS: ON LINE RESOURCES
http://www.word2word.com/dictionary.html

LEARN SPANISH
http://www.studyspanish.com/

RESOURCES FOR STUDYING FRENCH
http://aix1.uottawa.ca/~weinberg/french.html

STUDYING PHONETICS ON THE INTERNET
Many useful sources for study.
http://faculty.washington.edu/dillon/PhonResources/PhonResources.html

SINGING IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
http://www.vocalist.org.uk/singing_languages.html

VOWEL CHART
http://http://www.thedialectcoach.com/content.asp?ContentId=542

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