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<p>On 2019-07-16 16:54, John Whelan wrote:</p>
<blockquote type="cite" style="padding: 0 0.4em; border-left: #1010ff 2px solid; margin: 0"><!-- html ignored --><!-- head ignored --><!-- meta ignored --> One or two are problematic usually as the street name is an abbreviation. For example 1e Avenue in French meaning First Avenue.<br /> <br /> Any suggestions on how these should be handled? This particular application is aimed at partially sighted people but I feel we should be able to come up with a generic solution.<br /> </blockquote>
<p>Some kind of phonetic (IPA?) representation would be the ultimate generic solution. Here in NL (and I guess in many other countries) there are street names which are partially or entirely in other languages, and the expectation is that they are pronounced as such. For example, Boeing Avenue would sound completely weird if it were pronounced according to Dutch rules. Truly multi-lingual countries like Belgium and Switzerland should be able to make use of name:XX.</p>
<p>If we had name:XX:ipa=* we would have a place to put it, but the client app would need to have a way of turning that into sounds. It will only be needed if the pronunciation deviates from the standard for the language in question, but speech synthesisers are never perfect and often make mistakes....</p>
<p><a href="https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/264239/is-there-any-online-tool-to-read-pronounce-ipa-and-apa-written-words">https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/264239/is-there-any-online-tool-to-read-pronounce-ipa-and-apa-written-words</a></p>
<p>Of course we will also need a way of entering IPA symbols....</p>
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