@Tamasg May I ask, can we add whatever these apple things are to dictionaries as pronounciations?

[danestange@caneandable.social]

@Tamasg May I ask, can we add whatever these apple things are to dictionaries as pronounciations? Damn it, ˈdæ.mət, Stange, ˈstæŋ.i. Basically I used VO's built in dictionary and spoke how I wanted things to be sounded, like dammit is spoken the old english way, woman same thing, ˈwʊ.mən

[danestange@caneandable.social]

@Tamasg Eloquence on ios defaultyly on VOS dict support those weird ways of english like ˈɛ.lə.kwəns but only in dictionary mode.

[tamasg@mindly.social]

@danestange yeah, Right now it's text-to-text respelling: you type the word and a phonetic spelling that eSpeak
pronounces correctly. So "Damn it" → "dammit", etc. No IPA keyboard needed.
The dict file is a TSV that actually has IPA columns in its format, but the engine doesn't use those yet — it's on the
roadmap. For now, respelling gets you most of the way there.
If you want to get fancy, you can export your dict as a TSV, edit it in TextEdit or any text editor, and re-import.
That way you can organize entries, bulk-add words, etc.
Eventually the from_ipa and to_IPA columns in the TSV will get used on the engine, but a mobile IPA keyboard is sadly too brutal to ever build.

[tamasg@mindly.social]

@danestange Dane was right to be suspicious. Phoneme overrides never reach the AU extension. Oh no, Dane, you caught another bug.