It'd be very helpful if our staff were able to enter, and then easily see later, the proper pronunciation of prospect/student names.
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Toby Robinson Official comment Name pronunciation can now be added by clicking on the name in the profile.
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Deb Selin We would like this as well.
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Ginger Howell Yes. We would like that for students and faculty. For example, we have a faculty member who pronounces her name "Eh-dit" although it is spelled like "Edith." Maybe we can create an area in the "Other Info" section on the bio page.
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Adam Sentz I think this would be a cool feature. In the meantime folks could put a note about this in the bio field of their profile.
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Brent Graber Additional thought: audio recording.
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Adam Sentz Brent Graber - I'm a fan of this method, but I think you'd want the person to do their own name pronunciation which would necessitate a whole pending/approved layer. Something using the Web Speech API would be simpler to implement.
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Ginger Howell I ended up working with the instructor to not only put a phonetic pronunciation in our Course Office lesson, but also a recording of her pronunciation using a free app online. You are right, we can't just let students have control over that but a Web Speech API might work.
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Brent Graber Fair point. I'm suspect this is why Google Workspace doesn't have the pronunciation feature for their education editions ... though it's unclear to me that a work environment would be any "safer" in terms of people behaving appropriately. :)
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