Re: Phonetic Name Generator

Yes, this is a problem. The reason seems to be that, while I implement
independent probabilities for every phoneme, that's all the rules
there are. There are some special-cases which need specific rules to
produce better results; I added two, in fact. The first looks at the
phoneme string and sees if a "weird" character pairing is at the end
(like 'w' or 'wh')

This is a good step in the right direction. How do you determine which
pairs are "weird"?

[There exists some linguistic knowledge about typical and non-typical
phoneme combinations in several languages. I don't know about them for
English in particular (I am German (and German linguist)), but I am
sure that you can find information on this topic in the Internet or in
books.]

Mario Donick
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