NAME
Lingua::Alphabet::Phonetic - map ABC's to phonetic alphabets
SYNOPSIS
use Lingua::Alphabet::Phonetic;
my $oMilSpeaker = new Lingua::Alphabet::Phonetic('NATO');
my @asMilSpeak = $oMilSpeaker->enunciate('ABC');DESCRIPTION
At present, the only alphabet available for conversion is the U.S. Military / NATO standard where "ABC...YZ" is pronounced "Alpha Bravo Charlie ... Yankee Zulu". It is called 'NATO' and it is included with this distribution.
METHODS
- new
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Create an object of this class. See SYNOPSIS above.
- enunciate
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Given a string, returns a list of phonetic alphabet "words", one word per character of the original string. If there is no "word" in the alphabet for a character, that character is returned in the list position.
OTHER ALPHABETS
To create a conversion scheme for another alphabet, simply subclass this module and provide a method _name_of_letter() which takes a character and returns its phonetic name. See NATO.pm as an example.
SEE ALSO
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelling_alphabet is a brief overview
http://www.bckelk.uklinux.net/phon.full.html contains a list of phonetic alphabets from all over the world!
TO-DO
BUGS
Please tell the author if you find any!
LICENSE
This software is released under the same license as Perl itself.
AUTHOR
Martin 'Kingpin' Thurn, mthurn at cpan.org, http://tinyurl.com/nn67z.