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Yes, reading IPA is very hard, but it's hard for a good reason. It's the best way we have of describing human-made sounds unambiguously, because our regular alp
by henrikschroder 7y ago
Yes, reading IPA is very hard, but it's hard for a good reason. It's the best way we have of describing human-made sounds unambiguously, because our regular alphabet doesn't work cross-language.
I agree it would be cool if there was a good IPA speech synthesizer, that would certainly help! There's some discussion on the issues and problems with it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13514258 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13514258
- usr1106 7y agoI studied English and French 2 decades before affordable computers and speech synthesizers. Reading IPA for a single language is not all hard. You just get used to the symbols needed in that language. If you take a random language and believe that you can pronounce it correctly by reading IPA, well that won't work. Or at least be very hard.
- DagAgren 7y agoUnambiguously, except for the symbol this article is about, which is ambiguous.