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This article really really really needs an audio file to illustrate each of the sounds. 76.85.196.138 (talk) 04:40, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
On second thought, the entire use of an IPA on wikipedia is a tedious obfuscation compared to just inserting a widget that plays a sound file. At best, the IPA gives you a crude approximation of the pronunciation with some considerable effort at decoding it.76.85.196.138 (talk) 04:59, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
- One can actually do both. If we were to have a policy of using sound files to indicate pronunciation, we would have to create quite a few thousand sound files. — Ƶ§œš¹ [aɪm ˈfɹ̠ˤʷɛ̃ɾ̃ˡi] 06:12, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
- There's also the problem of whose dialect we use. kwami (talk) 19:57, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
- Where the pronunciation differs by dialect, the IPA representation will also differ. So that problem is not applicable to comparing the merits of sound files and IPA. Sound files are more precise and accessible. IPA is too reductionist. Making a few thousand of these sound files would be a good job for a new WikiProject. They could be added to articles in addition to or instead of IPA. 76.85.196.138 (talk) 19:46, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
- There's also the problem of whose dialect we use. kwami (talk) 19:57, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
- No, you evidently haven't read any of this. The IPA will not differ, but the sound files will. So sound files cannot explain the IPA, unless we can somehow link to sound files in each reader's dialect. — kwami (talk) 20:57, 1 June 2010 (UTC)