Online dictionaries are useless when it comes to pronunciati

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Many online dictionaries give audio files for pronunciation. While those files can help a bit, they are not enough because the person who pronounces the word often doesn't pronounce it clearly enough. I need the written pronunciation in IPA (international pronunciation phonetic alphabet) as well to know exactly how to pronounce the word. I often spend and waste time trying to find how to pronounce a word.

What do you think? Do you know any website that is actually useful? I'm talking about foreign languages not English.

Edited: Fixed my mistake.

 
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^Thank you for the response. I don't seem to be able to find the written pronunciation script in IPA there. That's what I need rather than the audio recording to listen to. For learners of foreign languages, the native pronunciation is not always easy to catch, especially if the audio recording is not absolutely clear. While the audio helps me improve pronunciation, when I want to know exactly how a word is meant to be pronounced, IPA is what I need.

↑ You must first translate a word or phrase into another language, and then click on the little speaker icon in the lower left-hand corner of the translated text.

^Thank you for your further response. I did that, but I still don't get the IPA script (not audio but written pronunciation script in IPA). IPA is a widely used form of written letters to represent how a word is pronounced. Or is it my setting that is preventing the IPA script from showing?

An example of IPA: approximately --> əˈprɒk sə mɪt li

↑ That seems to only work for individual words, and only in the lower left-hand corner of the original text.

^OK. It seems to do for some but doesn't seem to do for conjugated forms of verbs. It just shows the infinitive of that verb... Thanks any way.

↑ Sorry . . . best I could do.