providing pronunciation hints

[alanb2718]

It would be useful to be able to give yap a hint as to how to pronounce the name of a town when it reads meeting search results.

For example, if I search for meetings in Yakima, Washington, yap recognizes the town name, but when reading the meetings back, it pronounces it as 'UkEEma'.

[dgershman]

I'm pretty sure this would also affect Geocoding responses. For example if you enter a zip code or say a city or state, it reads back the location.

[alanb2718]

Yes, we would want incorrect pronunciations to be fixed for that as well, if possible.

[dgershman]

This will be in the next yap 4.3.0 beta

[dgershman]

yap 4.3.0 beta 8 was released.

[alanb2718]

Alas I'm not having any luck getting pronunciation hints to work. The example in the documentation is for Yakima:

static $pronunciations = [[
    "source"=>"Yakima",
    "target"=>"UkEEma"
]];

But UkEEma is what Twilio/yap currently says, and isn't correct. It should be YAKima (/ˈjækɪmɑː/). I tried various phonetic spellings (YAKima, Yaakima, etc), but none of them changed what was spoken. Then I tried just "Yak" as the target, to see if it was getting picked up at all, and Twilio/yap is still saying UkEEma.

Should I be doing something different?

[dgershman]

Is this still not working?

[dgershman]

#943

[alanb2718]

Looks like there is a bug in the pronunciationReplacement function -- it just works on the first replacement source/target pair. Need to go through all of the replacements.

I may also have had a caching problem, but at least now it's working for the first pair.

[dgershman]

Interesting, because str_replace() is supposed to replace all occurrences. Will write another test for this and see what's up.

[alanb2718]

The "all occurrences" part is ok. Here's the function:

    private function pronunciationReplacement($subject): string
    {
        foreach ($this->settings->get("pronunciations") as $item) {
            return str_replace($item['source'], $item['target'], $subject);
        }

        return $subject;
    }
}

So we iterate through the pronunciations, and return after processing the first item. So you'd fix all the occurrences of "Sequim", but not "Yakima", for those two pronunciation hints.

[dgershman]

gotcha, i understand now what you are saying!