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

Jay Daley <exec-director@ietf.org> Sun, 02 November 2025 17:56 UTC

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> On 2 Nov 2025, at 12:47, John C Klensin <john-ietf@jck.com> wrote:
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> (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.

When I wrote that it wasn’t an implicit suggestion but the alternative of IPA horrifies me so much that I will now explicitly suggest this for the following reasons:

- no need to learn IPA
- pronunciation guaranteed to be correct
- low friction mechanism for participants if the technology is done correctly
- could be used to train transcription mechanisms inserting a name when someone introduces themself

I’d like to hear what people don’t like about it. 

Jay


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