Lauri Hahne wrote: > I think some standard form should be used if we ever want to do > something like this. Although IPA is the official standard, it isn't > very computer or user friendly. Therefore I think something like > SAMPA, MRPA or X-SAMPA should be used. These are used to some extend > among linguistics and are all based on ASCII. These would also relieve > the pain of trying to figure out what something would be in phonetic > pseudo-english.
>> pronounce=deevisadeero >> >> or something similar readable by humans and flying computers that talk. Yes, I am also for something more standard like SAMPA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAMPA_chart_for_English _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk