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gavinggordon/phonetictranscriber
================================

A PHP class to transcribe English words into their IPA equivalent.

1.0.0(9y ago)21282[1 issues](https://github.com/gavinggordon/phonetictranscriber/issues)[1 PRs](https://github.com/gavinggordon/phonetictranscriber/pulls)MITPHP

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Phonetic Transcriber
====================

[](#phonetic-transcriber)

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Description
-----------

[](#description)

A PHP class which provides the ability to transcribe American and/or British English words into their IPA (*International Phonetic Alphabet*) equivalent.

Dependencies
------------

[](#dependencies)

```
~ ([rmccue/requests ^1.7](https://github.com/rmccue/Requests))

```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

### Installation

[](#installation)

```
	$	composer require gavinggordon/phonetictranscriber

```

### Examples

[](#examples)

#### Instantiation:

[](#instantiation)

Include the *autoload.php* file generated by composer, then instantiate the PhoneticTranscriber class:

```
	include( __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php' );

	$transcriber = new GGG\Language\PhoneticTranscriber;
```

#### Transcribing:

[](#transcribing)

Get the transcription of a given word, using the default settings:

```
	$transcription = $transcriber->transcribe( 'word' );
```

#### Public Methods Overview

[](#public-methods-overview)

- **\_\_construct**
- **set(** *$property*, *$value* **)**
- **transcribe(** *$text = NULL* **)**

#### Important Class Properties

[](#important-class-properties)

- **text\_to\_transcribe** \[ *string*; required \]
- **output\_dialect** \[ *string*; options: *'am' (american)*, *'br' (british)*; default: *'am'* \]
- **output\_style** \[ *string*; options: *'inline'*, *'columns'*, *'text'*; default: *'inline'* \]

#### Issues

[](#issues)

If you have any issues at all, please post your findings in the issues page at .

#### License

[](#license)

This package utilizes the MIT License.

---

#### More Information

[](#more-information)

##### PHP Innovation Award

[](#php-innovation-award)

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---

###  Health Score

27

—

LowBetter than 47% of packages

Maintenance10

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity14

Limited adoption so far

Community9

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity63

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

3467d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/7691513?v=4)[Gavin G Gordon](/maintainers/gavinggordon)[@gavinggordon](https://github.com/gavinggordon)

---

Top Contributors

[![gavinggordon](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/7691513?v=4)](https://github.com/gavinggordon "gavinggordon (13 commits)")

---

Tags

phplanguagetranslationenglishipacommunicationTranscriptionbritishlinguisticseducationaltranscribeInternational Phonetic Alphabetv1.0.0pronounciation

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