13. A computing device comprising: a processor; and memory interconnected with said processor storing instructions for facilitating text-to-speech conversion of a username that, when executed by said processor, cause said device to: retrieve a name of a user associated said username, said name comprising a first name of said user; determine a common or diminutive variation of said first name; and determine a pronunciation of said username based, at least in part, on whether said common or diminutive variation of said first name forms at least part of said username, and by calculating a likelihood of pronounceability of a portion of said username that is not said common or diminutive variation of said first name.
18. The computing device of claim 13 wherein, when said portion does not have more than a threshold number of characters, said determining said pronunciation of said username further comprises generating a phonetic representation of each character of said portion pronounced individually or generating a tokenized representation of each individual character of said portion suitable for interpretation by a text-to-speech engine.