- From: Jason White <jason@jasonjgw.net>
- Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2012 11:04:16 +1100
- To: public-indie-ui@w3.org
Independent User Interface Task Force Issue Tracker <sysbot+tracker@w3.org> wrote: > It's possible this should use a phonemic alphabet for the pronunciation strings, but I'm not sure about the l18n implications of that decision at the time of this writing. If I recall an undergraduate linguistics course correctly, the international phonetic alphabet is applicable to a great variety of languages. If IPA is included in Unicode, then it could perhaps be used to specify pronunciations, which could then be converted to the phonemic string used by the particular TTS software in use on the client side. This approach would also have the advantage that the value need only be specified as an Unicode string and authors could use either phonetics or substitute text as appropriate.
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