Automatic vocalization of Arabic dictionary entries

Hello everyone,

As an Arabic student, an issue I have with the way LingQ handles Arabic dictionaries is that it displays only unvocalized entries, which often makes the learner reliant on the text-to-speech function (which is, in my case, almost never practical) to get the pronunciation of a given word. This is an issue where pronunciation is not deductible via grammar, but is a lexical data.

I think it would be great if the pop-up dictionary would display, not the unvocalized word with its translation, but as its head an automatic vocalization of the word selected. This way the accurate pronunciation would be transparent without having to listen to test-to-speech; Something similar exists in the Reverso Context Chrome add-on, which gives you the transliteration in latin characters. I am aware that there is ambiguity and that there may be several possibilities contextually for vocalizing a given word.

If something similar to what I have just described is possible given the existing LingQ functions, please advise !

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