On Thursday 10 January 2013, John Sturdy wrote: > On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Andy Mabbett <[email protected]> > wrote: > > My friend Terence Eden has some interesting comments on documenting > > the pronunciation of place names, in this blog post: > > > Can we solve the problem of how to do this, in OSM? > > We could have a keyword convention for indicating the pronunciation > (in various languages) using the International Phonetic Alphabet; for > example, we could supplement name:<language>=* with > name:<language>:IPA=*
So what would you tag Shrewsbury? And incidentally, I don't know of any text-to-speech software that can pronounce IPA, so, while this proposal seems sensible, it probably wouldn't solve the original link's problem. robert. _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
