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

Create an object of this class. See SYNOPSIS above.

enunciate

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

Implement more alphabets.

Investigate how we might handle non-ASCII alphabets. Unicode?

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.