Forked from https://github.com/coruus/ascii-ipa

Reads from STDIN and writes to STDOUT when run directly with:

python kirshenbaum.py

You can pipe in and write out

python kirshenbaum.py < kirshenbaum.txt > ipa.txt

Default is a Kirshenbaum -> IPA conversion, but it can easily do conversion both ways, just edit the main function

An inefficient and ugly Python translator from the sci.lang and alt.usage.english ASCII IPA format (as standardized by Evan Kirshenbaum) and Unicode IPA glyphs.

It works well enough; pull requests happily accepted.

(As it happens, ASCII IPA is fairly convenient to enter on modern touch devices. A link to a Gist for Pythonista is likely.)

Evan Kirshenbaum maintains the specification, as well as a guide to its use. (But, for the moment, note the erratum found in this repo's docs/errata.markdown.)