About the work

A closer look.

Send a Russian text and get it back with every word marked for stress, so you can read it aloud without guessing. What you send: up to 1000 words of Russian, plain text. What you get: - The same text with a stress mark on every stressed vowel (Unicode combining acute, opens anywhere). - A short note on the words that are genuinely contested, or where the sources disagree. - The source for each of those words (gramota.ru, Wiktionary, and a native reading). How it is checked: I flag every word first, then verify each mark against a native recording of the text (or a close native reading) plus dictionaries. Where the sources are silent, the word stays unmarked and I list it. Liturgical church texts keep the stress they carry in a real reading; modern dictionaries and text-to-speech often flatten these. You get marked text, never synthetic audio. Good for: choir and church readers, learners reading aloud, voice actors, anyone preparing a Russian script. Free sample: my published marking of the lullaby "Баю-баюшки-баю" — ask and I will point you to it.