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IPAbet
A better keyboard for the International Phonetic Alphabet
IPAbet is a fast and memorable keyboard for typing the International Phonetic Alphabet, directly in any app. IPA symbols are created with familiar spellings (sH → ʃ), and every symbol is either one or two keystrokes. Free, open source, offline — native on macOS, or type in any browser.
I spent about two weeks designing and iterating on a new input method for typing the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). This project started as a question: what if you could type English digraphs like ⟨sh⟩ and ⟨ng⟩ and get their IPA symbols as Unicode /ʃ/ and /ŋ/? The result is a transformation system similar to Korean input methods, where you type shifted letters to create IPA letters (s⇧H → ʃ).
The keyboard is rigorous, and includes every base IPA symbol, plus mappings for all of IPA’s diacritics and the symbols for length, stress, and tone. The website includes a typing tutorial and a place to try the keyboard without having to install.
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About IPAbet on Product Hunt
“A better keyboard for the International Phonetic Alphabet”
IPAbet was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #26 on the daily leaderboard. IPAbet is a fast and memorable keyboard for typing the International Phonetic Alphabet, directly in any app. IPA symbols are created with familiar spellings (sH → ʃ), and every symbol is either one or two keystrokes. Free, open source, offline — native on macOS, or type in any browser.
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Brian Kim
I spent about two weeks designing and iterating on a new input method for typing the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). This project started as a question: what if you could type English digraphs like ⟨sh⟩ and ⟨ng⟩ and get their IPA symbols as Unicode /ʃ/ and /ŋ/? The result is a transformation system similar to Korean input methods, where you type shifted letters to create IPA letters (s⇧H → ʃ).
The keyboard is rigorous, and includes every base IPA symbol, plus mappings for all of IPA’s diacritics and the symbols for length, stress, and tone. The website includes a typing tutorial and a place to try the keyboard without having to install.