[OSM-talk] Spoken street names

[John F. Eldredge]

This would be only semi-successful on English-language names, since 
English has loan-words from virtually every other language on Earth, and 
many of those words don't fit the general English phonetic rules.


On 08/22/2016 01:16 PM, Peter Wendorff wrote:
> Am 22.08.2016 um 19:21 schrieb Štefan Baebler:
>> Having TTS to hear the street names is very nice, but hearing them
>> correctly pronounced would be even better.
>>
>> There was an attempt at it:
>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Phonetics
>>
>> But AFAIK there was no outcome from that proposal.
>
> Did anyone really investigate how bad using common phonetic rules PER 
> LANGUAGE on osm names?
> For many names that should work I think, at least when the right 
> language is detected correctly.
> That, on the other hand, could be hinted by using the corresponding 
> name:[lang] tags (name:de, name:en, ...), probably even when the main 
> language might be redundant.
>
> regards
> Peter
>
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