I have a confession to make. On a recent episode of Workflow, I went on camera to recommend the Halide camera app. Everything went perfectly until the video made its way online, at which point the comments started rolling in to politely inform me I’d been pronouncing Halide completely wrong for the past year. Apparently, it’s pronounced “hay-lyde,” not “ha-li-day.” What a nightmare.

Turns out, I really could have used Google’s latest feature, which Android Police reports spells out words phonetically when you search for them. So, thanks to a new Learn to Pronounce option, “onomatopoeia” becomes “o-nuh-ma-tuh-pee-uh,” and “Halide” would, theoretically, become “hay-lyde.” It even allows you to select between American and British…

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