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Introducing Truespel
The World’s First and Only Standard Phonetic Spelling

This web page is dedicated to presenting and fostering truespel, the world’s first standard phonetic spelling (based on English and using standard keyboard (roman) letters). The objective of truespel is to enable the listener to spell any language by spelling the sounds (phonemes) they hear. Conversely it enables you to read any language spelled in truespel virtually without any accent. It’s the goal of truespel to form a phonetic basis for learning, speaking, reading, and analyzing all language. Since truespel gives a written rendering of the spoken word, it spells slang and accents as well. In effect, you spell what you hear. This celebrates our diversity and tries to make it easier to communicate at the same time.

Benefits

  • Creates an easy-to-read pronunciation guide, better than the present one (IPA) that uses special symbols.
  • Establishes for the first time a qwerty based standard phoneme set based on the most popular language – English
  • When other languages are spelled in truespel, enables you to read them instantaneously – no spelling barrier.
  • Eliminates accents caused by misinterpretation of foreign spelled words.
  • Establishes real easy computer text-to-speech applications.
  • Helps remedial English teaching and training as a second language.
  • Enables analysis of languages phonetically for the first time.
    • Right now, a phonetic dictionary of 59,000 words has been built in truespel. It contains truespel versions of word forms as well, using the phonetic interpretation of the American Heritage Talking Dictionary © Softkey. A converter can take a file written in regular English and convert it to truespel. This converted exists and is called BTRSPL. Thus, writing truespel text is just a file conversion away. Note that truespel versions for English accents other than represented by the American Heritage Talking Dictionary © (AHTD) will need to be build for UK, NZ, Australia, etc. I do believe that the AHTD is a good phonetic representation of typical American English as spoken over the media (radio and TV).

    Truespel products developed so far.

  • Truespel Maniffestoe. Shows the basic philosophy behind truespel and gives a brief tutorial.
  • Truespel Phoneme List. Shows each of the 40 phonemes and examples.
  • Truespel Game. Print it out and cut out the phonemes. Play it like scrabble by making words or make up your own rules. Good learning or teaching tool.
  • Truespel Phoneme Justification. [Truespel laagik] Shows why the phonemes were picked. Truespel is very similar to ITA (the Initial Teaching Alphabet) but does not use any special symbosl, ligatures, or fonts.
  • Truespel Dictionary. Each line in this dictionary consists of a truespeld word next to a regularly spelled word. This format is suitable for the BTRSPL converter, which can take a text file and convert it to truespel.
  • Truespel Foundation. Truespel@hotmail.com. PO Box 71, Cologne NJ 08213.
    • Founder and President,Tom Zurinskas,  Truespel@hotmail.com.

    Vice President, Bruce Rosenberg,  betarose@mciworld.com

    Treasurer, Bernie Sypniewski,  syp@jerseycape.com

    We have much work to do in respelling many languages to truespel. This will mean adopting some new spelling conventions for some phonemes. Much help is sought in this endeavor. Don’t hesitate to drop us a line if you’d like to pitch in or have any ideas for us.
     


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