# Doesn’t this really seem more like speech-to-phoneme-stream?

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Doesn’t this really seem more like speech-to-phoneme-stream? In languages
where spelling diverges strongly from pronounciation (like English & French),
we should expect phonetic pronounciation to spelling translation to be at
least as complex as speech to phonetic pronounciation, if it used the same
models (which it basically never does — having a NN guess the spelling for an
unfamiliar word would be a nightmare!).

By [John Ohno](https://medium.com/@enkiv2) on [November 6,
2017](https://medium.com/p/21e55f9f70cf).

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