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As a voice actor, I am in LOVE with this idea, and have searched for this very thing a number of times. I'm really glad to see it created. Im constantly faced w
by delgaudm 10y ago
As a voice actor, I am in LOVE with this idea, and have searched for this very thing a number of times. I'm really glad to see it created. Im constantly faced with saying words I have no idea how to pronounce correctly, and I spend far too much time trawling through youtube videos, or on forvo.com, and its ilk in the hopes of finding the word correctly pronounced.
I wonder, though, if it's a shortcoming of IPA that the generated pronunciations are not what I'd expect. Example, my hometown of Annapolis is here [1] by this tool: compared to how it's actually pronounced [2]
[1]https://speak-ipa.bearbin.net/speak.cgi?speak=%C9%99%CB%88n%C3%A6p%C9%99l%E1%B5%BBs https://speak-ipa.bearbin.net/speak.cgi?speak=%C9%99%CB%88n%...
[2]https://youtu.be/1I71yL3SG80?t=11 https://youtu.be/1I71yL3SG80?t=11
As you can hear it's pretty far off, so much so I would be unable to rely on the computer generated version.
- DonaldFisk 10y agoThe transcription you used /əˈnæpəlᵻs/ contains /ᵻ/ which doesn't appear to be a commonly used IPA character (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-close_central_unrounded_vowel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-close_central_unrounded_v...), and presumably wasn't encoded and so was absent from the output. Try /əˈnæpəlɪs/, which though it might not capture all the nuances of the local accent, at least sounds intelligible.
- delgaudm 10y agoThat is helpful! Thank you! I had copied the notation from wikipedia.