Click on a word to get its pronunciation

Question

I am looking for a program running on Microsoft Windows that can give the pronunciation of a word when I click on it or press some keyboard shortcuts. I'm mostly interested in texts written in English. The pronunciation may be given either as a text (e.g., prəˌnənsēˈāSH(ə)n/) or sound.

Ideally it should work in any program, but it's okay if I have to paste the text in some specific window.

Any price or license is fine.

Answer 1

One option would be to use a screen reader.

Several blind computer users have recommended Window-Eyes which is a highly customizable Windows screen reader. Multiple versions of Windows supported, (7-10, Vista, Server 2008/2012 both 32/64 bit).

It is paid for software but registered MS-Office 2010, and later users, can get it for free.

Interestingly on the latter web site they list British & English separately, presumably English is en-US and British is en-UK but no options for other variations of English and a limited number of other languages.

Answer 2

Another, (online), option would be to either use https://forvo.com/ directly, where you have a choice of pronunciation samples or via a dictionary application such as GoldenDict.

GoldenDict gives you:

• Windows or Linux operation (Free software: GNU GPLv3+ license) or Android (Paid).
• Portable, USB, Version (no pronunciation support).
• Offline access to a number of offline dictionary formats, complete with support for pronunciation. Such as WordNet_3.0.
• Access to a number of online dictionaries.
• Support for multiple languages.
• Translation dictionaries.
• Hotkey bindings & Pop-Ups.