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

[John C Klensin <[e-mail]>]

--On Sunday, November 2, 2025 09:15 -0800 Marc Petit-Huguenin
<[e-mail]> wrote:

> On 11/2/25 8:55 AM, Kyle Rose wrote:
>> On Sun, Nov 2, 2025 at 11:35 AM Marc Petit-Huguenin
>> <[e-mail]> 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.
> 
> 
> https://ipa-reader.com/

Marc,

Sure (and thanks).  But now I have to wonder (and I don't have an
answer) which of the following options would be less bad:

(1) Expect a significant fraction of IETF participants to learn IPA,
at least to the extent of writing their own names, and supply help
for those participants who don't/ can't _and_ expect those who
want/need the pronunciation information to either master IPA or
utilize a tool like this.
  or
(2) Jay's question and implicit suggestion of having participates
record their own pronunciation of their names and storing the
consequent audio clip in the datatracker.

I like the idea of having pronunciation information available, but
neither of the above feels really attractive.

    john