Board Thread:Star Wars Fanon Discussion/@comment-31421-20170401172118/@comment-27198352-20170404034202

SavageOpress1138 wrote: This is really a great feature for Star Wars Fanon. It's such a great way to capture the creative spirit behind our wiki. What's perhaps even more exciting though, is the potential for you&mdash;yes YOU&mdash;Star Wars Fanon users to help with the development of this feature. Given the plethora of fan created names, Fandom is looking for users to submit their preferred pronunciations of words. Not only will others be able to hear your content the way you want it, there's also the potential for this to evolve into an audio-to-text feature as well. Imagine being able to speak into your microphone and have Wikia write the article for you! No more pesky source mode editing, that's for sure!

Again, I'll emphasize that this isn't a fully armed and operational battle station feature yet. What it still needs to take off is help from all of you. So head on over to the preview wiki now!

If you have any further questions about the feature, I'm happy to answer whatever I can, and I'm sure Brandon will be able to fill in any Fandom specific queries that are above my pay grade. Savage Oppress, you sly dog!

In any case, it would certainly be nice to have the computer pronounce the words and names how you want it, as text-to-speech systems can make their own pronunciations, which are often not the ones you intend for. I would expect it to be possible to edit the pronunciation via dictionary-type specialized pronunciation characters, with the capability to preview the pronunciation whenever during the process. Just like with Irish pronunciations, a name can be pronounced nothing like how it looks (Seriously, Irishmen have names that cannot be pronounced unless you're a native speaker.), I for example made At'Azraqa names and words so that they are incredibly complex in pronunciation.