10. A non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions for facilitating text-to-speech conversion of a username that, when executed by a processor of a computing device, cause said computing device to: retrieve a name of a user associated with said username, said name comprising a first name of said user; determine a common or diminutive variation of said first name; determining 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.
10. A non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions for facilitating text-to-speech conversion of a username that, when executed by a processor of a computing device, cause said computing device to: retrieve a name of a user associated with said username, said name comprising a first name of said user; determine a common or diminutive variation of said first name; determining 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. 11. The machine-readable medium of claim 10 wherein the determining of the common or diminutive variation of said first name comprises using a dictionary to map the first name to the diminutive variation of the first name.