It's interesting that Turkish is bidirectionally phonetic. That's not always the case. Some languages have strict text->speech rules but ambiguities in speech->

It's interesting that Turkish is bidirectionally phonetic. That's not always the case. Some languages have strict text->speech rules but ambiguities in speech->text. Some are the other way around. I seem to recall that 'z' in Italian has some ambiguity like that, but I forget the details.