On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 10:30 AM, Tom Pfeifer <t.pfei...@computer.org> wrote: > I agree that tagging pronunciation is a good thing for unusual situations, > and the examples that were cited before already use the IPA [1], which would > be my recommendation as well. > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet
I quite agree! Locally, I'd use it because we have quite a lot of place names whose local pronunciation is not what you'd expect. Edinburg, New York, has its 'g'; 'Cairo' is /ˈkʰeɪ̯.ɹoʊ̯/; 'Berlin;' is /ˈbəːɹ.ɫᵻn/ (or perhaps/ˈbɜːɹ.ɫᵻn/, the local dialect has the fir-fur-fern merger. 'Heard' and 'herd' are pronounced alike); Delhi is /'dʰɛɫˌhäɪ̯/ (nearer a spondee than a trochee). It might be wise to permit Kirshenbaum[1] or X-SAMPA[2] as alternatives (I'd favour the latter, since I know of existing TTS systems that can deal with it.) IPA can be an issue for the keyboard-challenged. That said, I'd be satisfied if front-end programs like JOSM would be able to accept X-SAMPA from the keyboard but store and display the IPA for it. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirshenbaum [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-SAMPA _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
