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Word Pronunciator

What if we spoke English the way it was spelled? Talk to Word Pronunciator to find out what it would sound like!

Popular examples:

• "the four birds went on a night flight"
• "what are you doing"
• "what is in the fridge"

How it works:

• Coded in HTML5
• Processes input using browser's speech recognition
• Converts script to Devanagari (a phonetic alphabet) based on a set of rules
• Outputs pronunciated speech using Google's Devanagari synthesizer

Further reading/references on why English sucks:

• See this: a fairly thorough reference on the ways English is trash
• This compilation of hilarious ways in which you can mispronounce English words
• This entire YouTube channel

About this project:

• Developed at TreeHacks 2017 (in a couple hours)
• By Akash Levy (drawing heavily from copied example code, as always)
• Shout goes out to the lovely Sonia Targ for most of the brilliant ideas
• Other credits: Google Chrome team, Hero Patterns, FlatIcon

Built With

• bootstrap
• css
• html5
• speechapi