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Cool little lib from Atif Azam that allows you to wrap a name in a span and it puts a little 🔊 button to hear the pronunciation. The audio comes from NameShouts. You can't contribute your own pronunciations to NameShouts, best I can tell, but the lib allows you to provide an alternate source.

I made a demo based on the screenshot in the README:

See the Pen Demo of Vocalizer by Chris Coyier (@chriscoyier) on CodePen.

During San Francisco’s Stupid Shit No One Needs and Terrible Ideas “Hackathon”, Glen Chiaccheri made a game where you have to literally scream your way through it.

Make sure to check it out in Firefox, as Chrome and Safari don’t support the getUserMedia API fully. This is the API that allows web developers to request access to the user’s microphone, which you can find more info about on HTML5Rocks.