I would use the following strategy: find how the name is written in the original language, then copy it into Google Translate (with the correct language set) and click to hear the pronounciation.
For example, the Wikipedia English page for Viktor Zhdanov links to Russian (Русский) page for… well, the page title is Жданов, Виктор Михайлович (вирусолог), because there were multiple famous people with the same name (including the patronymic)… but anyway, just copy everything into Google Translate, which also deciphers the Cyrillic, so you can now rearrange it to Виктор Жданов.
With Karel Raška, you already have the correct written form, just set the language in Google Translate to Czech.
I would use the following strategy: find how the name is written in the original language, then copy it into Google Translate (with the correct language set) and click to hear the pronounciation.
For example, the Wikipedia English page for Viktor Zhdanov links to Russian (Русский) page for… well, the page title is Жданов, Виктор Михайлович (вирусолог), because there were multiple famous people with the same name (including the patronymic)… but anyway, just copy everything into Google Translate, which also deciphers the Cyrillic, so you can now rearrange it to Виктор Жданов.
With Karel Raška, you already have the correct written form, just set the language in Google Translate to Czech.
Yeah this is a super useful method and increasingly my go-to for esp. Chinese
This is a great strategy, Viliam, thank you! Stumbled upon it while trying to pronounce Ali Maow Maalin.