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Designing an IPA keyboard for the iPad
- mullr 16y agoDoes the iPad SDK actually afford new input methods? That would be a very welcome change. I would very much like to make an iambic morse-code input method. Good for input without looking.
- fragmede 16y agoIt's for your own apps only, but SDK 3.2 added custom input views: http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/UIKit/Reference/UIResponder_Class/Reference/Reference.html#//apple_ref/occ/instp/UIResponder/inputView http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/UIKi... (from http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1283657 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1283657)
- fragmede 16y agoGiven that IPA is a construct, and thus has a clear mapping between a sound and its character representation, speech-to-text input would actually be a great way to input IPA.
- maw 16y agoIt would, until you have to pronounce a sound you have trouble making.
- fragmede 16y agoI'm not a linguist. How often does that happen? Does it happen sufficiently often enough that finding the right sound(s) on a full IPA chart (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IPA_chart_2005_png.svg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IPA_chart_2005_png.svg) and using that as the larger 'keyboard' is too cumbersome?
- maw 16y agoDepends on who's doing the pronouncing, I suppose, but certainly linguists are not competent in all languages. Two obvious examples occur to me. The first is the clicking sound in some African languages. Another is a speaker accustomed to a limited set of vowels trying to input vowel sounds he can't replicate well.