Extension:PronunciationRecording/GSoC 2013

=GSOC Project Idea : Pronunciation Recording Extension=

I have been engaged with Mediawiki since 2 months now and since GSOC 2013 is up soon i felt its the right time to draft a Rough Proposal

Introduction

 * In Wiktionary many words have pronunciation audio files(.ogg) attached with them, these audio files tell the user how to pronounce a word in specific language. Same words are pronounced differently in different parts of the world. Example : The word Garage is spoken differently all around the world [Garage]
 * The word "minute" is pronounced differently when it is spoken in the time context as compared to when it is spoken in the quantity context, such words are called hetronyms. The audio files attached to each of the etymologies clearly depict this difference.
 * But there are several words that do not have audio files attached to them. Conducting a rough survey I found out that words used extensively in a particular discipline i.e medicine, mathematics, etc don't have audio files attached to them. Example : aggravate, compendium


 * It would be nice if we could have an extension that records pronunciations.
 * There is a thread in the mailing list requesting for a Pronunciation Recording Tool.

Simple workflow

 * We will be using the word aggravate as a reference ,since it does not have pronunciation files attached to it
 * Presently the wiktionary page of aggravate looks more or less like this //to be continued tommorrow ...Sleepy

Benefits

 * For words having a particular background (mathematics, biology, etc) experts from that field can record pronunciations.