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A free online Talking English Pronunciation Dictionary - simply mouseover/tap your entry to hear it pronounced. American and British spellings, with alternative Pronunciations. Sounds are fast, clear and completely natural, pre-recorded by native speakers. Answers the question "How do you say...?".

Lessons about authentic use and pronunciation of American English

This website has explanations and activities for sounds that are problematic for many ESL speakers Unit One: TH, as in THINK, BATHROOM, and TEETH.

Game-like Minimal Pair Practice using Flash and MP3 Files

Website with links that pronounce the elements in the periodic table.

Words are highlighted as you hear them, so it's easy to follow the text as you listen or read aloud.

This website allows you to paste text in (up to 1000 characters), which is then read aloud. This is a good way to listen for and practice word stress.

Polishing your English Language Skills, featuring former student Dr. Linda Cendales

Sounds of Speech (English) mobile application. This site contains animations of the phonetic sounds of Spanish and English. Available for each consonant and vowel is an animated articulatory diagram, a step-by-step description, and video-audio of the sound spoken in context. It is intended for students of phonetics, linguistics, and foreign language.

Emphasis and Pitch, featuring actor Blake Covington

This site provides not only definitions, pronunciations, synonyms/antonyms, and etymologies, but also, to name a few features, real-time example sentences from Twitter, words that are used in the same context (e.g., searching for "corny" will retrieve "overblown" and "country-western" (!), and Flikr photos tagged with the word-so you can actually see what people find corny.