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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By: russell.r.cohen

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Users: 805 ▼ -5

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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# 34165 ▼ 204

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#26361 in Workflow & Planning ▼ 24 #56 in wikipedia keyword 21 ▼ 3 #191 in wiki keyword 14 ▼ 15

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Extension summary

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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

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Pros

Does exactly what it says -- useful for those who can't remember their IPA characters.
Works fine in general for English pronunciation.
Extremely useful for Wikipedia users as a language resource.

Cons

Limited functionality for non-English languages, with many pronunciation errors.
Issues with voice nationality for proper pronunciation.
Frequent reports of the extension not working or broken functionality.

Most mentioned

Doesn't work or is broken.
Pronunciation errors, specifically with sounds like 'ç' and various diacritics.
Works well for English pronunciation.

Recent reviews

Darion, 2024-02-26

omg so glad I didn't have to write this extension since it already exists!!

Clayton Belcher, 2023-05-14

Russell: If you want it to work properly, you would have to allow the user to manually select a voice with the proper nationality. Otherwise, if you have just an American voice, it can only produce American English sounds. The website ipa-reader.xyz tries to do this, but they don't have enough nationalities.