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Comment on IPA TTS bookmarklet by John Tantalo

John Tantalo — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 14:09:50 +0000

@Chris & James: yes, the bookmarklet uses a TTS speech engine by AT&T which has limited support for IPA.

Comment on IPA TTS bookmarklet by James D

James D — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 12:49:04 +0000

Nice. It seems to be missing some letters completely though (e.g. [ɬ]).

Comment on IPA TTS bookmarklet by Chris Staffa

Chris Staffa — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:54:13 +0000

This is working for me from Wikipedia on Firefox 9.0 and Windows xp pro, have to cut and paste into the prompt. From this page doesn’t work, but I can cut from this page, go to Wikipedia, select anything, click the bookmark, and paste the text from this page into the prompt. ˌɪntɚˈnæʃnəl comes out “international” with a clear, broad r.
Rolled r, ɾ, comes out as t. Thus ˈkʊmbɾiə comes out as ‘coom-tee-ah, which is really unhelpful. I suspect the speech program is limited in the phonemes it can render.

Comment on Go-flavored JavaScript by Javascript: Links, News and Resources (3) « Angel “Java” Lopez on Blog

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 09:50:40 +0000

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Comment on Go-flavored JavaScript by John Tantalo

John Tantalo — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 22:42:12 +0000

Ryan, I was using v0.2.5. I’m on v0.4.11 now, and I have changed the code to use setTimeout(fn, 0) instead.

Comment on Go-flavored JavaScript by Ryan Graham

Ryan Graham — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 22:15:45 +0000

Not sure what version of node you're running, but on mine setTimeout requires the second argument (delay) to work properly:

function go(fn) {
  setTimeout(fn, 0);
}

Comment on Go-flavored JavaScript by azendal

azendal — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 20:32:01 +0000

setTimeout will not really put another control thread will put the call into the tail of the event loop of the main thread, what you really gain is that go does not block allowing other pending operations to run before fn. this will trick the stack of the interpreter to not block but to “request” a new stack of execution.

Comment on IPA TTS bookmarklet by Lizzi

Lizzi — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 23:30:43 +0000

Really cool idea.
It doesn’t ever seem to find any IPA when I select it on the page, but I can always type it in.
Some of the IPA symbols aren’t pronounced though, including o and ɒ.
Is this not complete?

Comment on IPA TTS bookmarklet by John Tantalo

John Tantalo — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 05:24:09 +0000

Sorry about that. Textmate’s JavaScript-to-Bookmarklet feature sucks. Does it work now?

The easiest way to test it is to click the “IPA TTS” link above. It should give you a prompt.

Comment on IPA TTS bookmarklet by Bethany

Bethany — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 02:37:25 +0000

Yeah, doesn’t seem to work for Chrome v14.0.835.186 either. **sadface**