Re:Ask HN: Review my website soundkey.com
by giu on Tuesday March 09, 2010 @09:06AM
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Nice idea, nice web site layout, nice presentation. Now to my questions. How do you ensure that a common word (e.g. 'Bruschetta') is pronounced right? Can user obtain a certain trust level (like Translators over at Twitter), so they can approve the correctness of a pronounced word? Or, expressed in a more general way: how do you fight trolls (Yes, I'm quite interested in spam/troll-fighting techniques :)?
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I think that barring any obscene sounds, all variations on a word will be allowed. So, Bruschetta might have several entries. However, I'm planning on adding user voting (1-5 stars or thumbs up/down), so if there are many variations on a word pronunciation, we get to see which are the most popular.
Because, after all, it's interesting to see how a word, say, "Nuclear" or "Tomato" is pronounced around the country or around the world. (I may add a geographical location field, so the speaker can identify where they live and/or where they were raised)
For trolls or people who just want to submit obscene or "gag sounds" e.g. the sound "dish" for the entry under the title "tomato", I will be adding a "flag this entry" so people seeing the bad entry can flag it so that I and/or some moderators can review it.