pronunciation

[pabigot 355]

I occasionally find myself people who want to do low-power stuff and don't want to fuss about at the level of BSP430 or direct programming towards Energia. I stumble on a simple issue:

 

How do y'all pronounce that word?

 

I assume it's not the Spanish pronunciation (neither South American nor European Spanish), because that's just adding gratuitous complexity. Is it "eh NER jee ah" or "EN ner Jee a" or "eh NERJ ya" or something else?

[bluehash 1,581]

I occasionally find myself people who want to do low-power stuff and don't want to fuss about at the level of BSP430 or direct programming towards Energia. I stumble on a simple issue:

 

How do y'all pronounce that word?

 

I assume it's not the Spanish pronunciation (neither South American nor European Spanish), because that's just adding gratuitous complexity. Is it "eh NER jee ah" or "EN ner Jee a" or "eh NERJ ya" or something else?

I have heard the TI guys calling ener-gee-ya

[pabigot 355]

I have heard the TI guys calling ener-gee-ya

Since we're not using IPA here (though the site supports unicode so we probably could): is that what I would write as "eh ner JEE ah", i.e. accent on the "gee"? (Ok, that's just pathetic.)

[rockets4kids 204]

My understanding is that the name came from the Russian space program, in which case proper pronunciation can be heard in this youtube clip:

 

[spirilis 1,265]

Yeah, the 'g' is a hard G, not a soft G.

 

Eh-ner-GEE-ah (hard 'G' like in 'GIVE')

[rockets4kids 204]

It should be a hard G, but three syllables with the accent on the second.

[energia 485]

The video clip indeed has the right pronunciation. The G is hard and as @@spirilis writes: Eh-ner-GEE-ah.

 

Here is another clip: http://shtooka.net/listen/rus/%D1%8D%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B8%D1%8F

 

Robert 

[spirilis 1,265]

Ah k, so not quite "Eh-ner-GEE-ah", more like "Eh-NERR-geah"

[pabigot 355]

The video clip indeed has the right pronunciation. The G is hard and as @@spirilis writes: Eh-ner-GEE-ah.

 

Here is another clip: http://shtooka.net/listen/rus/???????

So, as best I can reconstruct: Russian ???????, English Energia, IPA /??n?r?ij

Edited September 26, 2014 by pabigot

[rockets4kids 204]

That still doesn't seem quite right when spoken by AT&Ts tool:

 

http://www2.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php

[energia 485]

The AT&T tool speaks it like most English speaking people would and that's fine, not all of us speak Russian, including me..

[rockets4kids 204]

My understanding is that the whole point of IPA is to eliminate those issues.

[pabigot 355]

My understanding is that the whole point of IPA is to eliminate those issues.

AT&T's tool only handles English and Latin American Spanish, based on the selected voice. It won't understand IPA symbols, so the j will sound like "jay" with the default English voice. The Spanish voices seem to read it out character-by-character, including some numerical substitution.

 

A quick google failed to reveal a usable IPA-to-sound converter.

[rockets4kids 204]

My bad.  I provided the wrong link.  There was a time when you could feed IPA into AT&T's tool, but it now appears that functionality is no longer available.