12.3082, Sum: Pronounciation-Searchable French Dictionary

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Subject: 12.3082, Sum: Pronounciation-Searchable French Dictionary

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Date:  Tue, 11 Dec 2001 12:38:33 -0800 (PST)
From:  "S. Levi" <svlevi at u.washington.edu>
Subject:  French Searchable Dictionary

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Date:  Tue, 11 Dec 2001 12:38:33 -0800 (PST)
From:  "S. Levi" <svlevi at u.washington.edu>
Subject:  French Searchable Dictionary

(Summary to the posting about an Online French Dictionary, 12.3075, Qs:
French Dictionary)

This week I posted a message looking for an electronic french dictionary
that would be searchable in the pronunciation.  By far, the biggest
suggestion was a CD-ROM version of the Petit Robert 1996.  There were also some
other suggestions (below).  Some comments are below.  I have included some of
the suggestions on where to find this, and also the place I ended up ordering
it from.  I also discovered that there is a brand new 2001/2 version, but I
don't know if it still has this function, though I imagine it does.  Thanks to
all who replied.

Susannah Levi
svlevi at u.washington.edu

"Le Petit Robert from 1996 (and certainly later) has a fully-supported phonetic
search function, among many other bells and whistles."
"I've found it to be an excellent tool, meeting all of my needs. You can search
for any string of phonemes. Searches may include wildcards for single
consonants or vowels, as well as sequences of unspecified segments. In Canada,
it costs just under $100CDN, so I imagine that it should be about
$60US. "
"The Petit Robert électronique has a function that allows the user to query
by sound. The user clicks on the IPA characters composing the word and all the
words sharing the same pronunciation are proposed."

PLACES IN THE US:

(I ordered it from this place.  I have not received it yet, so I cannot comment
on whether it actually works.  It was more expensive than the canadian sites,
but the canadian site would ship in 3-5 weeks, and this place put it in the mail
when I called to order it.)
http://www.europeanbook.com/
Le Petit Robert CD-ROM Hybride
$119.95
http://www.europeanbook.com/dictilan.html
Author: Robert
Published by: Le Robert
ISBN: 605639213106

PLACES IN FRANCE:

@book{Robert96,
   author = {Paul Robert},
   editor = {Josette Rey-Debove & Alain Rey},
   title = {Version électronique du Nouveau Petit Robert.  Dictionnaire
analogique et alphabétique de la langue française},
   year = {1996}

Their address is:
Dictionnaires Le Robert
27, rue de la Glacière
F-75640 Paris
Tel +33 1 / 43 16 45 00
Fax +33 1 / 43 16 45 45

Rey-Debove, J. & A. Rey (eds.). 1996. Nouveau petit Robert: Dictionnaire
analogique et alphabétique de la langue française. Paris : Dictionnaires
le Robert.
http://www.lerobert.com.fr/PR1_cdrom/petitrobert_cd.htm

Also available at:
http://www.fnac.com

IN CANADA:
http://www.archambault.ca/store/default.asp
http://www.renaud-bray.com

Thanks to the following people who responded:
Damon Allen Davison  davison at socal.rr.com
Zoe Toft
Michael Tjalve
Jeffrey Steele E-Mail: jsteel1 at po-box.mcgill.ca
Jean Quirion
Helene Ossipov <HELENE.OSSIPOV at asu.edu>

Another suggestion (not the petit robert) was the following:
From: Debbie Berkley <dmberk at microsoft.com>
 The Brulex is a database that I used as a text file and
searched in Unix or DOS.  It does have backwards pronunciation fields,
too, which is kind of cool, but there's nothing fancy about it.

Another suggestion (not with the petit robert) was the following:

http://www.lexique.org
from
- Nabil Hathout
Nabil.Hathout at univ-tlse2.fr

Another suggestion (not the petit robert) was the following:

If you can get an ordinary French dictionary (in a machine-readable form,
of course), you could obtain transcriptions by using a speech-synthesis
system. With our lab's system, for example, it is no problem at all doing this.
You can download it for free at
http://www.unil.ch/imm/docs/LAIP/LAIPTTS_SpeechMill_dl_fr.htm
(There should be an English version of that page, but it does not seem to work
at the moment.
Martin Forst
Martin.Forst at imm.unil.ch

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