Wikipedia IPA Speaker

Wikipedia IPA Speaker

This extension allows you to listen to IPA on Wikipedia.

What is Wikipedia IPA Speaker?
'Wikipedia IPA Speaker' is a free-to-use Chrome extension designed to improve your learning experience on Wikipedia. Instead of redirecting you to a generic IPA page when clicking an IPA text, this extension adds a play button next to each IPA notation. This functionality enables the users to listen to how the phonetic notations are pronounced, simplifying the phonetics learning process. Note: Icons for this extension are credited to Freepik (flaticon.com) and are licensed under CC 3.0 BY.
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Stats
Users: 882 ▼ -19
Rating: 3.31 (35)
Version: 1.3 (Last updated: 2017-07-06)
Creation date: 2017-07-05
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Size: 35.77K
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Summary

If you click on IPA (international phonetic alphabet) text on wikipedia, it links to a generic IPA page, which is quite frustrating. This extension adds a play button next to IPA text to read it aloud.

Icons made by Freepik from http://www.flaticon.com is licensed by http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ (CC 3.0 BY)

User reviews
User reviews summary
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Pros
  • Useful for English pronunciation
  • Simple and easy to use
  • Helpful for understanding IPA characters
Cons
  • Not designed to work with languages other than English
  • Many pronunciation errors
  • Frequent issues with the extension not working
Most mentioned
  • Doesn't work/not working
  • Pronunciation errors
  • Expired certificate causing issues
  • Useful for English pronunciation
Recent reviews
Works fine but pronounces ç like k (BE/AE pronunciation of hue vs cue).
by Markus Heinrichs Markus Heinrichs, 2022-11-25

Works fine but says k instead of ç (cue instead of hue).
by Markus Heinrichs Markus Heinrichs, 2023-01-31

Works fine but pronounces ç like k (BE/AE pronunciation of hue vs cue).
by Markus Heinrichs Markus Heinrichs, 2022-11-25
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Safety
Risk impact

Wikipedia IPA Speaker is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Wikipedia IPA Speaker has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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