How to download audio files from merriam-webster?

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Hi all
I have seen that some members download audio files from the merriam webster site.
www.merriam-webster.com
I checked out the site, but I was unable to figure out how to download the audio files, though I was able to listen to them. Can any parents help?

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you just have to right click it and select save link as

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Hi …
Thank you nhockaday.
I tried that too. Still no luck :frowning:
OK this is what I did. I went to their home page. There is an " enter a word or phrase" tab. Here I entered a word and clicked search, which took me to another page with definition and pronunciation. There was an audio symbol near the word. I tried right clicking and save target as, but it was saved as an html page. If I click it open i get that respective page. I still can’t download it as an audio file. Now how to go about with it? :confused:

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I don’t know if my method is the easiest, but it works for me. This is what I do:

When I click on the pronunciation (the audio symbol near the word), there is a small window pops out saying “Audio pronunciation for… hear it again…”. I click on click here to listen with your default audio player link. This will open my default audio player application and play the pronunciation. I get to save the audio file there.

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You can try to open it with your default audio player and then save it. For example with Windows Media Player once it opens in the right hand side shows the name of the file. You can right click and add it to… the folder you want to save it to. It is kind of a pain, but I couldn’t save it directly either.

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My husband is a software developer so when I aksed him this question a while ago he told me to go the the top of the browser and click View>Source and then you can see the voice file and save it. But there are probably easier ways

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Hello,

1/ Download flashget2.0and install this freeware from http://download.cnet.com/3001-20_4-12327.html?spi=fd6e81de36e9199ab8aa7943ee643a70

2/ get the wav link from the Page source ( use Find function, just type in “wav”)
e.g. http://media.merriam-webster.com/soundc11/a/apple001.wav

3/ place in flashget and download it.

4/ you can download anything using it, even flash and video.

Give it a try! :stuck_out_tongue:

Helen