International Phonetic Alphabet

[forrestcupp]

Wikipedia uses the IPA system for pronunciations. Someone seriously needs to come up with some software where you can copy/paste a word's pronunciation into it and it will pronounce it for you.

[alexan]

Google translate do it for some languages (and some wikipedia articles had the "button" with example pronunciation: you can ear Trovalds's voice in the Linux's one).

[Ric_NYC]

Wikipedia uses the IPA system for pronunciations. Someone seriously needs to come up with some software where you can copy/paste a word's pronunciation into it and it will pronounce it for you.


That's a good idea.


You can also use an online text-to-speech service, like this one:

http://text-to-speech.imtranslator.net/

[forrestcupp]

(and some wikipedia articles had the "button" with example pronunciation: you can ear Trovalds's voice in the Linux's one).Very few of the wikipedia entries have a pronunciation button.


That's a good idea.


You can also use an online text-to-speech service, like this one:

http://text-to-speech.imtranslator.net/Yeah. I'd like something exactly like that that can pronounce IPA words. There is absolutely nothing out there that can do that, and as popular as wikipedia is, there really should be.

[nerdopolis]

I'm surprised that the text to speech engines don't support that.

espeak can output IPA text, but I don't see an option to input IPA text...

which you would think it would seeing that it knows IPA. You'd also think that it be there, because it seems like a good way for the espeak developers to debug the part that actually outputs the pronunciation sounds...

It could be buried somewhere...