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Re:gemini:// space by jl6 on Monday February 01, 2021 @05:27AM (#25987389)
Gemini does support a `lang` parameter to its mime types, which can be used to indicate a document is in a mixture of languages. That could be enough of a hint for a client to tune its pronunciation.

I do agree though that this is a far bigger problem space than HTML's `lang` attribute is capable of solving. It's not like knowing the language of the text always tells you the unique pronunciation of a string of characters.

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Re:gemini:// space by mysterydip on Monday February 01, 2021 @05:49AM (#25987519)
Fair point, for example is it read or read? Maybe a better option would be a phonics tag or attribute followed by phonemes that no matter the language of the following word(s) would be able to be spoken by a reader?
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Re:gemini:// space by ignoranceprior on Monday February 01, 2021 @10:49AM (#25989658)
I can't wait until I have to annotate all my documents like:

  <sentence lang="en-US-x-Pittsburgh" intonation="falling"><word pos="subject-pronoun" ipa="hi">He</word> <word pos="verb-simple-past" ipa="ɹɛd">read</word> ... </sentence>
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Re:gemini:// space by carapace on Monday February 01, 2021 @11:34AM (#25990161)
That sounds like a fun challenge: make a voice-to-text widget that also generates phonetic or semantic annotations...
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Re:gemini:// space by jl6 on Monday February 01, 2021 @06:42AM (#25987796)
That would surely place too great a burden on authors to do it and to get it right.

Reading, as a discipline, is hard at the edges, and lots of humans don’t get it right either!

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