Name: pronunciation
Owner: GovTrack.us
Description: Prononciation Guide for Names of Members of Congress
Created: 2017-12-12 16:18:32.0
Updated: 2018-05-08 14:38:31.0
Pushed: 2018-05-08 14:38:30.0
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Language: Python
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This project contains a pronunciation guide for the names of current and recent-past Members of the United States Congress. This is a project of GovTrack.us. The first 539 records were created by Ezra Wyschogrod.
legislators.yaml is a YAML-formatted file. Each record is a current or recent-past Member of Congress which looks like:
:
govtrack: 400623
me: Debbie // Wasserman Schultz
a: d?bi // was??m?n ??lt?s
spell: DE-bee // WAS-er-mun shuults
tes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVmGudgxiRg
The record has four parts:
id…govtrack provides the numeric ID of the Member of Congress on GovTrack.
name provides the first and last name of the Member of Congress, as used by this project, separated by //.
ipa provides the pronunciation of the name using the International Phonetic Alphabet the world-wide standard for transcribing the sounds of speech. An IPA transcription is provided for the name as it appears in the name field, with the corresponding name parts separated by //.
respell provides a friendly guide to the pronunciation of the name using a “respelling“. The respelling is provided for the name as it appears in the name field, with the corresponding name parts separated by //. We use a respelling guide similar to the Pocket Oxford English Dictionary:
| Vowel | Example | Consonant | Example | | —– | ——- | ——— | ——- | | a | cat | b | bat | | ah | calm | ch | chin | | air | hair | d | day | | ar | bar | f | fat | | aw | law | g | get | | ay | say | h | hat | | e | bed | j | jam | | ee | meet | k | king | | eer | beer | l | leg | | er | her | m | man | | ew | few | n | not | | i | pin | ng | sing | | ? | eye | nk | thank | | o | top | p | pen | | oh | most | r | rag | | oo | soon | s | sit | | oor | poor | sh | push | | or | corn | t | top | | ow | cow | th | thin | | oy | boy | t?h | this | | u/uh | cup | v | van | | uu | book | w | will | | y | cry | y | yes | | yoo | unit | z | zebra | | yr | fire | zh | vision |
We use u and uh for both the stressed and unstressed mid central vowel, prefering u when the syllable has both an onset and a coda for readability reasons.
In addition: