| | ::::I think msh210 is asking you to say why it's "big improvement". I'm not against to per se, I just have no reason to support it. [[User:Mglovesfun|Mglovesfun]] ([[User talk:Mglovesfun|talk]]) 21:45, 25 April 2012 (UTC) | | ::::I think msh210 is asking you to say why it's "big improvement". I'm not against to per se, I just have no reason to support it. [[User:Mglovesfun|Mglovesfun]] ([[User talk:Mglovesfun|talk]]) 21:45, 25 April 2012 (UTC) |
| − | :::::# The biggest advantage is that [[Template:audio-IPA]] connects the IPA transcription to the actual audio file. This can be really handy for people who don't know how to read IPA and can't correctly associate two independent lists of pronunciations. | + | :::::# The biggest advantage is that [[Template:audio-IPA]] connects the IPA transcription to the actual audio file. This can be really handy for people who don't know how to read IPA and can't correctly associate a list of IPA transcriptions to the audio files. |
| | :::::#The new template also adds hidden categories based on optional, named parameters. This metadata can indicate the language, dialect, and sex of the speaker. This isn't information that anyone is using now, but it could come in handy at some point in the future. Additionally, the hidden categories can be used to determine which terms do not have audio with certain characteristics (e.g., you could make a DPL that gives all pages that do not have a British audio pronunciation). | | :::::#The new template also adds hidden categories based on optional, named parameters. This metadata can indicate the language, dialect, and sex of the speaker. This isn't information that anyone is using now, but it could come in handy at some point in the future. Additionally, the hidden categories can be used to determine which terms do not have audio with certain characteristics (e.g., you could make a DPL that gives all pages that do not have a British audio pronunciation). |
| | :::::In the future, I'd like to come up with a way to connect more than one recording to a transcription, but I just don't have a really clear way of presenting that on the page right now. | | :::::In the future, I'd like to come up with a way to connect more than one recording to a transcription, but I just don't have a really clear way of presenting that on the page right now. |
