Pronunciation: What is a good site where I can get the correct phonetic spelling of my name so that I can tell it to my non Indian friends?

From an English-speaker's perspective: this may be a hopeless quest.Giving a written phonetic pronunciation will probably be less effective than teaching someone in person. And either way, it may not be possible at all for many English speakers to get it right.The pronunciation you have given for some of the letters is different from what English speakers have been using to sound out words since they learned to read at about age six. It will be difficult to get them to see "ran" and say "run."Your first name begins with the consonant cluster /sr/. This combination doesn't exist in English, and could cause some speakers a lot of difficulty. They may not be able to help sticking a vowel sound between those two consonants.Your last name is five syllables. Words that long in English are often (probably usually) made up of smaller recognizable morphemes. (Like recognize+able.) Yours is not, at least no English morphemes. There are no clues for an English speaker to keep track of where the stress goes in the word.My suggestion is to be happy if the non-Indians give a good approximation of the way you pronounce your name. Some people who know and like you will be willing to put in the effort to learn the proper way to say the name the way you do, but most people won't fall into that category.

I feel your pain! I have tried a few different means, and I have not come across any good websites unfortunately. But one relatively firm conclusion that I have come to is that if people want to, they will take the effort to ask you, and figure out how to pronounce your name. It is unlikely to be anywhere close to perfect (that is unreasonable to expect), but it can be close enough, and I appreciate such efforts. If people dont have that basic politeness (and there are plenty of such people), they wont make the effort. I feel this is not so much an issue of teaching, vs that of learning.

I just call them up and pronounce it over the phone or Skype.Or else I prepare an audio file and save it in the cloud and send them a link.Even then some of my western friends don't bother to learn to pronounce my name .They just call me GV or Vish.I knew someone professionally. He used to be called Gleeson.He was a pakka Tamilian from Chennai and a Hindu to boot.When I asked him about his name  he told me  that his boss was a Britisher who could not pronounce Gnaana Akhilesan and simply called him Gleeson and the name stuck.I knew another person who owned a footwear shop, called Basu Footwear.I thought he was a Bengali. It turned out he was another Tamilian.When asked he told me that his name was Subramanian, and that  he had worked for many years in Bata. So his friends called him Bata Subramanian, Basu for short.GV

1. You are not going to find a site that produces a phonetic version (like IPA) of your name. So, you have to transcribe your name using IPA.  Here is a rough transcription: /sri kÊŒ:nt̪ tʃənd̪rÉ™ seːkÊ°É™rÉ™n̪ / 2. The other way to make it easier for English speakers is to anglicize your name. This is the route that Indians in Carrebean islands have taken: persaud, narine, sherma for prasad, narayan, sharma. Your name just reflects how Indians have romanized Tamil, Hindi, etc; its like using Roman alphabet instead of Cyrillic to write Russian names. 3. Since your name is long, even anglicizing it gets unwieldy. Sreekahnt Chunder Saykrun can get you there. In American English, /kr/ and /ker/ are pronounced same except for subtle timing. That's why I used "krun", instead of "kerun", "keran"or other variants--just to avoid more confusions down the road.

Srikanth Chandrasekaran worked with me to get an acceptable phonetic pronunciation of his name as well as an audio of it stripped of the accent. It was quite  a challenge because I'm not familiar with Tamil or Hindi, but I believe we reached a good compromise.http://www.howdoyousaythatword.com/word/srikanth-chandrasekaran-pronunciation/ I don't know of any site that does it automatically, but on http://howdoyousaythatword.com I take queries from the public and do my best to simplify the phonetics along with audio. The only way I can do it is on a case by case basis working with someone especially is the name is in a language I'm not familiar with. It's something I enjoy doing, so if anyone else has a query, feel free to message me.