com is free. You can look up a word and click on the small speaker icon, and it will give you the pronunciation
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In windows 7 simply go to the "Change text to speech settings" and there in the "text to speech" tab (@ "use the following text to preview the voice ") you can type your words and listen by clicking the "Preview voice button" .............