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[BUG] Phonemenal is incorrect #1

Open ER-95 opened 3 months ago

ER-95 commented 3 months ago

It seems Phonemenal doesn't actually work - it tells me "featherstonhaugh" is pronounced as "F-IY-DH-ER-S-T-AH-N-HH-AO", when in fact it's "Fanshaw".

Does this app simply not take irregular pronunciation into account?

heyseth commented 3 months ago

Hi there, the program calls the Datamuse api to try to get a pronunciation. It looks like featherstonhaugh is not in their database, hence, the program tries to create a best guess on how the word should be pronounced. When the program does this there will be a question mark displayed at the end of the pronunciation guide.