DoubleClickCopy

This programs turns any Double Click in any program into Double Click plus Control and Insert combination of keys after it. So double click in any program now not only selects the word but also copy it to the clipboard. If you have any dictionary catching the clipboard it is enough to doubleclick on any word to send it to that dictionary. You can put this program into your Autorun folder and it will work for you all the time unless you disable it.

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Vowels

We use this free program when we explain and compare the systems of vowels. It is about American, British and Russian systems. In fact the program is a set of pictures. But every vowel has its own button; and thus every sound can be very easily recorded and played. Buttons allow you to compare different sounds. The program also has a convenient connection to Wikipedia. You can read there about every vowel. When the movies with examples of every vowel are ready, each button of a vowel will have a connection to its movie. That work has not been done yet. Left button – listening to the sound Middle button – rerecording the sound Right button – movie with examples of the sound (movies are not ready yet)

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ListenRecordSay

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Working on pronunciation

This program is for improving pronunciation. It can also be used as a common video-player for watching movies and listening to music. The main principle is that. You watch movie then with one click stop it and start to record yourself. Then with one click you listen to your recording of yourself. Then with one click you play new fragment of movie. Sometimes you only stop movie and repeat after the speaker without recording yourself. Sometimes you record yourself and listen to yourself from outside. You don’t need to click many times and all the time to answer questions like “Do you want to save your recording?” Nothing distracts you from your work: only you and the language you are studying.

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As a common player

The program is portable. You can just put its exe-file into a folder with your media-files and it will add media-files to its list and will start to play them by turns. You can randomize or sort your media-files. Next time you run the program it will play the movie from the place where it was stopped before. And there are other useful options.

Working with subtitles

The program shows subtitles and parallel (additional) subtitles. Subtitles are played as a common text - it is one of available options. If it is shown as a common text, doubleclick on a word will send it to clipboard where it can be caught by any dictionary that works with clipboard. You can change transparency of the subtitles.

You can also:

1) To move directly from subtitle to subtitle
2) Play only parts of the movie where people speak and skip the parts of it where they are silent
3) Use additional delay after every subtitle
4) Edit subtitles
5) Go from sub to sub with corresponding picture without playing the movie
6) Fit subtitles to the video

Subtitles are connected to the movie if you place the file of subtitles (*.srt) with the same name as the movie but with different extension into the same folder. To connect the text-file "MyVideo.srt" to the video-file "MyVideo.mp4" just put the file "MyVideo.srt" into the same folder with "MyVideo.mp4".

Working with texts

The same way as with subtitles you can connect a txt-file. It is convenient when you work with a sound-file and the transcript to it. To connect the text-file "MyAudio.txt" to the audio-file "MyAudio.mp3" just put the file "MyAudio.txt" into the same folder.

If you check "Smart mouse" you will go from sentence to sentence (highlighting the sentence) by using the mouse wheel. If you press the mouse wheel and scroll it, it will scroll the movie, not the text.

Playing, Recording, Repeating, Rewinding

Everything is done with three buttons of the mouse:

1) Left button -- pause or play
2) Doubleclick -- rewinding back to some seconds (2 seconds by default)
3) Mouse wheel -- going forward or backward (2 seconds by default) (if the text is open then the wheel must be pressed)
4) Middle button -- the same as left button (pause or play)
5) Right button -- recording or playing our own voice

Slowing down the rate of the movie

If you play mp4 or mp3 files you can slow down video or audio. It is sometimes very convenient when you work on your pronunciation. You can also slow down wav-files if you have proper codecs installed in your system. When new codecs are developed, ListenRecordSay will be able to slow down other types of video. You won't even need to install a new version of ListenRecordSay for that.

On the other hand, speeding up is very convenient when you listen to people who speak very slowly. You spare much time and then it is not so boring to listen to slow speakers.

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RecordSay

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The program to improve your pronunciation

To improve your pronunciation you need to listen to yourself from outside. The Microsoft program "Sound Recorder" is not good for that purpose. With it you will have to do ten unnecessary clicks instead of only one click. Unnecessary movements will not let you to concentrate on language.

Saving your recording

You can save your file as wav-file. If you click on Button "S" your recording will be saved in the folder where you saved your last file without asking for the directory. The file will get name 001.wav or 002.wav etc... Right mouse button on button "S" will save your recording and play it with your default player for wav-files.

From any program!

You can use RecordSay without leaving the program you are working with. There are two checkboxes in RecordSay for that. If you check "Middle button in any program" the middle button of your mouse will start Recording or Playing of RecordSay. If this option is chosen the middle button will do only that and in your program will be disabled this moment.

The same way you can use your left button if the checkbox "Right Button in Any Program" is checked. This way you can work with practically any player. It can be PowerDVD, for example. PowerDVD allows you to work with movies in slow rate. It is very convenient when you work on your pronunciation.

How to work on pronunciation

You can just record yourself and listen to yourself from outside without necessity to look for buttons every time and to answer annoying questions like "Do you want to save your recording?"

You can also work with any movie files using any of your movie-players. Serials are good for working on the pronunciation. You listen to real actors who just speak the language you study. The movie can also be played in Internet even without downloading it. Everything is as usual.

You stop your movie. You press the middle button of the mouse and record yourself. Then you press the same button and listen to your recording. Then you click on movie and your player plays the next frame. Then you stop the player again and record yourself, and listen to yourself. That is how you work. Sometimes just stop and repeat after the actor without recording yourself. Sometimes do the same with recording and listening to yourself.

Keys and mouse

You can use either mouse or keyboard. Sometimes it is more convenient to use the right part of the keyboard (so called gray keys). The NumLock should not be pressed this moment.

Enter -- Recording, Playing
Wheel forward -- Recording
Wheel backward -- Playing
Minus -- Recording
Plus -- Playing
End -- Stop of recording or playing
Click on the program -- Stop

Button "S" (of the program) -- Save your recording in the folder you used the last time
Button "S" with right mouse button -- Saves the file and also makes your default player to play the saved file

If you drag multimedia file and drop it on the RecordSay it will make PowerDVD to play the file. It works if your PowerDVD is installed in its default folder in Program Files.

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Makebilingua and Parallel texts

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Makebilingua is a free program that will help you to create your own parallel texts or to read parallel texts created by others. Making new parallel texts with Makebilingua is like comfortable reading. But it is much more comfortable to read already prepared parallel texts. So if you have compounded a parallel text, please, send it to us to share your work with other users. ...The parallel text is a text that consists of two texts in one table. The left column contains sentences written in language you are studying. The right column is for their translations. Sometimes it is better when the texts are divided into even smaller parts than sentences.