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I've been hoping to see something like this for quite some time. Kudos for a really cool project and for making it available for people to play with.

At least for Spanish, it can pronounce some words fairly well. I wrote a Spanish orthography-to-IPA converter a few years back. It's up on Heroku until folks crash it if you want to get some Spanish words transcribed to IPA.

http://spanish-demo.herokuapp.com/

I used it to generate a few random words. Some of the sounds were off - for example ɾ (the "r" in "estar"). But many words were pronounced clearly enough to be understood.




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