Biblical Hebrew Forum

["JAMES CHRISTIAN READ" <JCR128 AT student.apu.ac.uk>]

Thanks for your reply Kevin. Its not a quest for 
anything more 'accurate'. Its a quest for phonetic 
representation that can be used universally with all 
other languages. An engine that processes transliterations 
would have to have different logic for each language 
and each transliteration system and would be a beast 
to write and maintain. I could write an engine which 
attempts to parse a text into a phonetic representation 
but as you have noted textual ambiguities would greatly 
increase the complexity of such a parsing algorithm. 
That is why I was hoping that somebody had already 
made an attempt so that I could benefit from work 
already done.

-----Original Message-----
From: "Kevin Riley" <klriley AT alphalink.com.au>
To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 10:37:35 +1000 (AUS Eastern Standard Time)
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Phonetic text of the tanach

 
-------Original Message-------
 
From: JAMES CHRISTIAN READ
Date: 05/31/06 02:47:11
 
Does anyone know of any attempts (preferably open source)
to convert the tanach or better any specific codex
(aleppo or leningrad) into phonetic script, using the
internationally accepted phonetic alphabet (i.e. not
a transliteration)?
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But such a project could be nothing but a transliteration.  All you could do
is transliterate the Hebrew text into IPA symbols.  I am not sure what
advantage that would have over the usual transliteration schemes.  It would
also raise the question of which pronunciation would be used.  As some areas
of Hebrew pronunciation are still disputed [or were when I had time to read
up on this last year] the phonetic transliteration may be no more exact than
what we have in the Hebrew text itself.  

Kevin Riley

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rably open source)
to convert the tanach or better any specific codex
(aleppo or leningrad) into phonetic script, using the
internationally accepted phonetic alphabet (i.e. not
a transliteration)?
***********************

But such a project could be nothing but a transliteration.  All you could do
is transliterate the Hebrew text into IPA symbols.  I am not sure what
advantage that would have over the usual transliteration schemes.  It would
also raise the question of which pronunciation would be used.  As some areas
of Hebrew pronunciation are still disputed [or were when I had time to read
up on this last year] the phonetic transliteration may be no more exact than
what we have in the Hebrew text itself.

Kevin Riley

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