Standard English Orthography to “Typewriter Spelling Reform”

July 14, 2025

The Typewriter Spelling Reform is a simple and very multigraphic American English spelling reform that I devised entirely in front of a typewriter; it only uses 24 of the 26 basic Latin letters.

This converter works by shoving the given input into Uberduck's English to ARPAbet API to get phonemic data, and the output ARPAbet is then processed, rather imperfectly, into the spelling reform.

Please note:

• After typing in the input box, press Enter or click out of the box to start conversion.
• Inputs of multiple words are supported, but capitalization, numerals, and punctuation are not preserved.
• Numbers will always be spelled out, and very long numbers rarely work correctly.
• Abbreviations rarely work. Capitalization will not change anything.
• Many popular trademarks will work.
• The vowels in the output might be different than expected (since the ARPAbet conversion model uses a specific accent). This is acceptable.
• Hyphens where phonemes may get confused (as per my description of the reform) are not automatically added.
• The converter will attempt to convert words it doesn't recognize into something that can reasonably be spoken, including complete gibberish. Play around with this if you want.