person community-consensus
raffel is most commonly pronounced "raf ul" (/ˈræfəl/). This is the widely-used reading among engineers, though edge cases exist.
Colin Raffel, lead author of T5.
Pronouncing project and product names correctly avoids the small but persistent friction of being gently corrected during standups, conference Q&As, and team calls. Hearing the word a few times locks in the right reading better than reading IPA ever will. Pronounce is a community-maintained dictionary — every entry tagged with a confidence level and (where possible) a citable source.
Install the CLI: git clone https://github.com/anzy-renlab-ai/pronounce.git && cd pronounce && ./install.sh
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