For those learning to speak Cantonese, one of the most widely spoken Chinese dialects, we are providing here, free of charge, a learning kit in the form of a text-to-speech conversion software program, called “The Spokesperson”.

 

Learners of Cantonese can benefit from this software in two ways. First, they will find all the sounds of Cantonese in this software.

 

Second, learners will be able to have fun playing with the Cantonese sounds they hear to reinforce their learning. By typing the Hexatave symbols (or the phonetic symbols) of any Cantonese words or phrases into the Spokesperson, a learner would be able to listen to any phrase they want to hear, even an entire poem read out.

 

To listen to the following poem read out in Cantonese, simply type the phonetic symbols into the Spokesperson program.