Seems marginally useful. When GitLab asked me for how my name is pronounced, I scratched my head and figured there must be some generator for such things, and ended up at NameShouts. They did generate pronunciations for my name, but not of a quality that I was able to just cut and paste; I had to tweak them to make them usable. I'd have been more impressed if they included a mechanism for suggesting improvements to existing entries, but there was none.
tl;dr? "Meh."
With the most extensive database on the Internet, and all-new features and design, we'd like to introduce NameShouts 2.0: our updated answer to name pronunciation.
Special Thanks to @benln for hunting us.
Hello Product Hunters!👋
My name is Naureen and I am one of the co-founders of NameShouts. Every new relationship starts with learning a new name. Our goal with NameShouts is to teach people how to pronounce names correctly.
Names are getting more diverse than ever before (XÆ A-12 anyone 😂?) and we all encounter names on a day-to-day basis that we struggle to pronounce 😖. @chaity_tarafder , @sifc and I built the first version of NS to create a simple tool to help everyone pronounce names. 🎉
Very soon we saw that a large number of people from different industries including (sales/marketing/HR and education) were using us daily. These users wanted more features on NameShouts, such as lists and extensions. 🐘
We built Version 2.0 so that our power users can get more out of NameShouts, but without losing the simplicity that made it useful to everyone else. This is a complete redesign of NameShouts. One of the more powerful features in V2.0 lets users' favorite names and build their own custom name lists.
We are also working on adding the following features in the upcoming weeks and months:
- allowing users to record their own name and share it with their network 📣
- sharing your lists with your teammates or colleagues in-app;
- integrations in Chrome, Hubspot, and Moodle with our NameShouts API;
- new languages and accents;
- and much more.
We are very excited to share this beta version with the Product Hunt community and we look forward to your feedback! ✍️
@chaity_tarafder@sifc@naureenanwar You're welcome to join the discussion, I feel gender identification could be a great addition to NameShout's premise. There are already some API listed on the needgap thread.
I’ve been looking for a solution like this for a while and I think having a feature that allows to save “favourite” names is great. After a while it becomes embarassing to not be able to pronounce peoples names correctly. Congrats for building this :)
@foolery It's really useful if you have a prospect with a "hard-to-pronounce" name. It's useful to have this handy so that you have the peace of mind before your next call.
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