Speaking and Pronunciation Skills: 2017

25.12.17

Helen Mirren's Masterclass

Dame Helen Lydia Mirren, born 26 July 1945) is an English actress.

Mirren began her acting career with the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1967, and is one of the few performers who has achieved the Triple Crown of Acting, having won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 2007, after two previous nominations, for her performance as Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen, she received an Olivier Award for Best Actress in 2013 for her West End performance in The Audience, in which she also portrayed Elizabeth II, and in 2015, she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her Broadway performance in the play.

In 2003, she was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for Services to the Performing Arts. In 2013, Mirren was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and in 2014, BAFTA announced that Mirren would be the recipient of the Academy Fellowship. [Wikipedia]

16.11.17

A little help for your oral productions

Convert online any English text into speech. Listen and repeat what you hear. A great support that can help increase comprehension and reading speed for English Language Learners is Text-to-Speech.

Text-to-speech (TTS) applications translate digital text into spoken word. TTS applications vary in what added features and voices are available, but the general principle is the same—to allow auditory rather than visual consumption of a digital text.

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