11. 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 one of a first name of said user and a last name of said user; and determine a pronunciation of said username based at least in part on whether said name forms at least part of said username, wherein, if said name forms at least part of said username, said determining said pronunciation comprises generating a phonetic representation of said name pronounced as a whole or generating a tokenized representation of said name as a whole suitable for interpretation by a text-to-speech engine, and wherein said determining said pronunciation further comprises calculating a likelihood of pronounceability of a portion of said username that is not said name.
11. 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 one of a first name of said user and a last name of said user; and determine a pronunciation of said username based at least in part on whether said name forms at least part of said username, wherein, if said name forms at least part of said username, said determining said pronunciation comprises generating a phonetic representation of said name pronounced as a whole or generating a tokenized representation of said name as a whole suitable for interpretation by a text-to-speech engine, and wherein said determining said pronunciation further comprises calculating a likelihood of pronounceability of a portion of said username that is not said name. 15. The machine-readable medium of claim 11 wherein said calculating comprises breaking said portion of said username into letter pairs or letter triplets and determining a frequency of occurrence of said letter pairs or letter triplets in a spoken language.