Can you read IPA?

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(by "read" here I don't mean "fluently", just "can work out what it means given time"; IPA is not meant to be something you can fluently read)

@monorail @Felthry

I had a professor once who could read spectrograms of human speech and work out what was being said. Now that was a cool party trick.

@dodec @monorail @Felthry ...oh, they must have learned what the formants look like! We've been idly thinking about trying to learn about formants for PICO-8 speech synthesis purposes a la lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=62057#

@packbat @monorail @Felthry That was a big part of it. Sibilants like /s/ and /ʃ/ have distinctive white-noise-like appearances too.

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