On 18/01/2008, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
IPA is, technically, automatically convertible to correct speech by software. Phonetic spellings won't be. None of the existing free software speech syntheizers that I am aware of support IPA as a phonetic input format currently. I spend a couple of hours trying to write a IPA->festival phonetic converter, but my own lack of understand of IP (and phonetic representations) got in the way. This really should be done, not only would it improve the ease and coverage of getting a pronouncation but it would also reduce the risk of IPA vandalism.
This is a *brilliant* idea. Please, spread it around!
(I'm just picturing it: "MediaWiki. Dependencies: Festival.")
- d.