davidpomerenke/alphabetify

Learn a new alphabet by reading a good text in your native alphabet with more and more foreign letters.

alphabetify's Issues

Use pronounciation for transliteration

While transliterating letter-by-letter works nicely for German → *, most users appear to find it unintuitive for English → *.

There exists a tool for retrieving the international phonetic alphabet (IPA) version of an English word: https://github.com/shukriadams/node-text-to-ipa

The main work would be to rewrite the transliteration rules for English → * using the IPA characters as source characters. There's 107 characters + diacritics, so this will get really complex. I don't know whether Regexes work well with IPA characters.

Convert rule files into a more human-readable format

This could stimulate the engagement of non-techies.

Omit rules if they would be overridden by other rules (which are not yet triggered)

For example, don't replace ph with πh — it would be replaced by φ once the according rule triggers.

This should be done automatically and without any hacking in the rule files required. Actually, some hacking which is already going on there might turn out to be unnecessary once this is implemented.