Re: IPA -> Ascii website

On Wed, 17 Oct 2001 12:34:13 -0400, Patrick Jarrett <Seraph@...>
wrote:

>Hey guys - I know I am not the only one out there who needs this.
>I finally found a website which transcribed the IPA into the ASCII
>code which the more knowledgeable readers use. Being the newbie I
>am I have been seeking this and finally found it.
>
>http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Evan_Kirshenbaum/IPA/english.html
>
>Hope someone else can find use in this as well.
This is only a small part of Evan Kirshenbaum's ASCII-IPA scheme. The rest
of it is here:

http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Evan_Kirshenbaum/IPA/faq.html

Although there are many things I like about the Kirshenbaum system, it has
a number of gaps, and in particular having to use [s<lat>] and [z<lat>] for
the lateral fricatives is just awkward. I'm not too fond of X-SAMPA, but it
gets the job done and has become somewhat of a standard around here. A
summary of X-SAMPA is at http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/sampa/x-sampa.htm
(but if you have Acrobat Reader you should really look at the PDF version
at http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/sampa/ipasam-x.pdf, which is more
complete and has actual pictures of the IPA characters).

Once when I was dissatisfied with X-SAMPA, I came up with my own scheme,
the KPA (http://www.io.com/~hmiller/lang/kpa.html). There are a few things
I'd change about the KPA, but I still think it's a pretty good system
overall, and easier to read than X-SAMPA. I have a hand-drawn X-SAMPA <->
IPA chart I keep next to my laptop for reading Conlang messages. I'd
probably still want a chart for KPA, but I wouldn't need it as frequently.
(Quick, what's X-SAMPA for linguolabial? In KPA it's [_m]. If you're
familiar with the "subscript seagull" you can see where that comes from. I
only know it's [_N] in X-SAMPA because I have the chart next to me.)

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