Very smart #linguistics folx, your attention please 🙏
Given the #IPA həˈləʊ, is there or is there not only "one way" of that being pronounced?
If so, by extension, correct in assuming the phoneme ə can again only be "pronounced" one way?
Why then does the ə on https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/General_phonetics#Vowels not sound like the ə in the word hello (represented as həˈləʊ)???
Recently my Internet friend Terrence Eden crafted a blog post titled Blog To Speech which you might want to also read. It serves as an inspiration for this post. In short, there’s a trend in blogging (and on some news sites) to add an audio transcription of the page you’re reading, usually at the top of the article. Mostly this is done semi-automatically using a bot to read in an “AI generated” voice such as Amazon Polly.
Sammy (friend of foxes)
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