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by wamatt 3281 days ago
Kudos on a useful concept. Some feedback: Alternate pronunciations seems to go a bit wonky. For example it pronounces Ribosome [1] (/ˈraɪbəˌsoʊm, -boʊ-/) as ri-bo-some-bo :). Overall quite a nifty tool as many wikipedia pages do not have native pronunciation recordings. Could also see it helping casual learners of IPA.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribosome

2 comments

You confused me quite a lot! Why did you "transliterate" /soʊm/ as "some"? Is there a dialect of English where "some" is pronounced as /soʊm/ and not as /sʌm/ or /səm/?
Likely "some" as in "home", not as the real English word "some"
Yes, that's exactly right. Sorry for the confusion lambdadmitry!
OP here. Nice find -- I'll add handling for alternative pronunciations soon :-)