[Foundation-l] Automatic username transliteration for SUL

[GerardM]

Hoi,
It does not. There is no standard yet that includes the differentiation
between spoken dialects. With the ISO-639-6 this will become to
differentiate between different linguistic entities even for pronunciations.
When this standard becomes functional, it will be possible to identify a
word as to be associated with a specific spoken linguistic entity and
consequently software will be able to guess how it needs to be pronounced.
Thanks,
     GerardM

On 12/24/06, James Hare <messedrocker at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> What I would like to know is how a machine will be able to deduce a
> pronounciation through a username.
>
> On 12/24/06, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
> >
> > Neil Harris wrote:
> >
> > > If we can make it as simple as that (and acknowledge that the
> automatic
> > >
> > >transliteration will often be very, very,  bad) we could possibly make
> > >this work, with the option to change your nick to something else later.
> > >
> > >Perhaps language -> IPA -> language might be a good way of helping the
> m
> > >x n problem for this, in which case we could use language <-> IPA
> tables
> > >to bootstrap this.
> > >
> > >Would this be a good idea, or would it be linguistic nonsense?
> > >
> > Probably linguistic nonsense.  Although it serves a very useful purpose
> > in conveying pronunciations, anly a limited community interested in
> > linguistics will be familiar with it.  For everybody else (which to be
> > fair must include the English speakers) it amounts to attaining equality
> > by putting everything into a common language which all will equally not
> > understand. :-)
> >
> > Ec
> >
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