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Re:Show HN: I made a faster, mobile-friendly interface for W... by MJGrzymek on Saturday April 12, 2025 @10:25AM (#43664661)
I'm a potential user in the wiktionary frontend market cause I'm addicted to checking pronunciations but it seems the support is not great, for example searching "dog" there is no IPA.
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Re:Show HN: I made a faster, mobile-friendly interface for W... by sha-3 on Saturday April 12, 2025 @10:40AM (#43664766)
Great catch! I've figured out the problem. My API actually returns[0] the IPA for both UK and US accents. The problem was it was under the tags "Received-Pronunciation" and "General-American" instead of the usual "En-uk" and "En-us".

I will deploy a fix soon. Thank you!

[0]: https://dict.apihost.site/v1/define/en/dog

EDIT: I've deployed a fix. This still won't cover all the edge-cases but it's much better than before.

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