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[Tools-discuss] Re: A "pronunciation" resource?

Kyle Rose <krose@krose.org> Sun, 02 November 2025 16:55 UTC

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Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2025 11:55:25 -0500
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On Sun, Nov 2, 2025 at 11:35 AM Marc Petit-Huguenin <marc@petit-huguenin.org>
wrote:

> Storing the pronunciation in, say, IPA does not require to already know
> the English pronunciation of everything: /maɾk pəti-ygənɛ̃/


No, it only requires you to know IPA, which probably far fewer IETF
participants know than the pronunciation of basic English words. I took
linguistics in college, too... 31 years ago. Fuck if I can remember any of
that.

If IPA is the preference, please provide a tool that speaks the IPA.

Kyle

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