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Re:Show HN: Add a play button next to IPA on Wikipedia by lauretas on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @05:22AM (#14652751)
How does this work? Where does the audio come from? Does it use some database of recorded IPA sounds, or does it convert from text to speech on the fly?
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Re:Show HN: Add a play button next to IPA on Wikipedia by josephfrazier on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @11:45AM (#14655106)
Judging from the source (viewable with Chrome extension source viewer [1]), it's POSTing the IPA text to https://www.ipaaudio.click/audio as the `ipa` key of a JSON object, the server does the heavy lifting and sends back an audio buffer, which the extension sends to a WebAudio context.

It'd be neat to know what exactly the server is doing, though.

[1]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-extension-s...

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Re:Show HN: Add a play button next to IPA on Wikipedia by rusbus on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @01:16PM (#14656039)
OP here! I'm using Amazon's polly API which lets you convert IPA directly to audio
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Re:Show HN: Add a play button next to IPA on Wikipedia by sborra on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @06:06AM (#14652915)
From what I can tell, it's bending an english TTS engine to make it pronounce IPA sounds
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