Comments 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.

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]).

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.

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?

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.

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**

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 00:13:14 +0000

I’m having the same problem as Biggles…doesn’t actually do anything, just seems to load something for a second and that’s it…nothing.

By: Biggles

Biggles — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 22:04:27 +0000

Okay, so.. I’ve tried this on IE 8, Google Chrome and Firefox 5.0. When I highlight some IPA and click on the link/bookmarklet, the browser tries to load something for a split second, but nothing happens.. nothing about the at&t demo showing up, or an iframe, or anything mentioned above..

I’m pretty clueless about this stuff, I have no idea what a frame is or anything like that.. so any sort of help would be awesome.

By: ghurley

ghurley — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 21:25:43 +0000

Ok. It works.

By: John Tantalo

John Tantalo — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 17:59:27 +0000

What domain are you trying on? Does it work on Wikipedia, e.g., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France?

I have noticed it will apparently blacklist a referer, such as this page, but it will continue to allow other referers. I find it odd that you have an issue with Firefox, however, because AFAIK Firefox does not send HTTP Referer headers.

Also, they are using a few different IP addresses: 192.20.225.55 and 192.20.225.36. Both are working last I checked.