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How does Wikispeech relate to Wikidata?

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ChristianKl (talkcontribs)

In cases where there are multiple words with the same spelling but different pronounciation it seems like Wikidata could help. It might be possible to select the correct alternative based on the context and Wikidata's knowledge.

Does Wikispeech try to integrate with Wikidata?

John Andersson (WMSE) (talkcontribs)

Hi ChristianKl and thank you for your question!

Currently Wikidata doesn't work as a dictionary (even though there are plans/considerations to integrate Wiktionary there). However, our hope is that the lexicon for Wikispeech and recorded pronunciations for words would be valuable to add either to Wikidata or Wiktionary in the future. See #7 here. One way could be to upload files with the sound recordings onto Wikimedia Commons, with the IPA as part of the metadata, another option is to connect different words to the Wikispeech database. This is something we have to look into a bit more.

Cheers

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