bcicen / acrophone

Easily convert text to phonetic spelling

acrophone

Commandline utility to easily convert text to phonetic spelling

Installing

Download the latest release for your platform:

OS X

curl -Lo acrophone https://github.com/bcicen/acrophone/releases/download/v0.3/acrophone-0.3-darwin-amd64
sudo mv acrophone /usr/local/bin/
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/acrophone

Linux

wget https://github.com/bcicen/acrophone/releases/download/v0.3/acrophone-0.3-linux-amd64 -O acrophone
sudo mv acrophone /usr/local/bin/
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/acrophone

Usage

Simply provide one or more words as an argument:

$ acrophone hello
Hotel Echo Lima Lima Oscar

Alphabets

Multiple phonetic alphabets are included and may be specified using the -a option.

Alphabet	Description
nato	NATO/ICAO Iternational
nypd	New York Police

Options

Option	Description
--alphabet , -a	Phonetic alphabet to use (default: "nato")
--list, -l	List available phonetic alphabets
--version, -v	Print the version